On Monday 09 June 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > A few weeks ago something changed regarding the way the country is > chosen. Right now, the mirror and language selection don't work > together very well: I tell the mirror selection tool which country I > live in, but the country/language selection tool doesn't default to > that country. > > When I go through d-i, this is what happens: > > Choose a mirror of the Debian archive > - Austria > Choose language (Choose a continent or region): Africa, Antartica, etc > - Europe > Choose language (Choose a country, territory or area): Albania, > Andorra, etc - Austria > > Why is Africa the country rather than Europe (1st language question), > and Albania rather than Austria (2nd language question)? It would be > nice to figure out based on the mirror which contintent/country I > might be in. AFAIK localechooser has never taken defaults from mirror selection as they are normally run the other way around, so there is no regression. There are only a few installation images where localechooser is "forcibly" run later. Now that localechooser consistently uses country codes instead of country names, setting a default based on mirror selection is in theory possible but I can't say that implementing this is high on my current priority list and there are some caveats that should be considered. Here's what I can think of right now: - manual entry of a local mirror - when FTP is selected (no mirror list), the mirror country will still be set (default value for language - frequently not set correctly) - a lot of countries don't have mirrors, so in those cases you'd end up with a default that's probably somewhat nearby, but not correct - in case where the language is also selected, the default country for the language may well be better than the value chosen for a mirror Feel free to file a wishlist BR against localechooser for adding this new support. Cheers, FJP
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