Bug#275904: should construct the shortlist templates with per-language default countries instead of setting defaults at runtime
> > Right now the postinst script sets default countries in the shortlist at
> > runtime. I've sort of fixed this to not break preseeding, but the right
> > fix is really to add Default fields to each individual per-language
> > shortlist template, and not set it at runtime.
>
>
> For this, we would need to have a udeb with the
> /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED file when countrychooser (or later
> localechooser) is run.
>
> This would make us rid of SUPPORTED-short, however. And, again, save
> another thing included at build time.
>
> If you're OK with the 6213-3304 bytes loss in the initrd, then we
> should clone this bug and reassign one part to the glibc package,
> asking for a locales-udeb with just /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED.
Well, Frans mentions me he doesn't understand my mail and I agree with
him.
Indeed I misunderstood Joey's bug report. I thought he suggested
building the LIST of countries in the shortlist template at RUN TIME
and not BUILD TIME.
This is of course completely wrong as everyone reading joey's mail
carefully will understand he just wants to have the default country be
chosen at BUILD time and not RUN time....
So, forget about my comment...I should not try to go back into D-I
after a week-end mostly off hacking it..:-)
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