Bug#260887: Untranslated country names and hang in apt-config and korean locale.
retitle 260887 Should use iso_3166.tab file from the iso-codes package
thanks
Quoting Changwoo Ryu (cwryu@debian.org):
> Package: base-config
> Version: 2.36
> Severity: important
>
>
> How to reproduce:
> 1. install base-config
> 2. run /usr/sbin/apt-setup with LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8, in a UTF-8 capable
> terminal.
> 3. select "http" or "ftp"
> 4. at the top of the country list, you will see 3 untranslated country
> names,
> "Britain (UK)", "Korea (South)", "Russia". Especially the top "Britain
> (UK)" line
> looks very badly formatted...
> 5. choosing "Britain (UK)" hangs apt-setup.
>
>
>
> The problem was, that different names were used between iso3166.tab and
> iso-codes package.
apt-setup seems to make reference to /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso_3166.tab
This file is obsolete and not as carefully maintained as the same file
from iso-codes.
I'm not sure the severity you choose is really adapted, however.
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