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Bug#702050: #702050: tasksel: a meta task to install all language tasks ?



Control: tags -1 + wontfix


Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote (2 Mar 2013):
> I just installed all the task-<language>-desktop packages on my computer
> using equivs and a Depends field populated by the output of the following
> command, run from the tasks directory of the tasksel package.
> 
>     find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -l '^Task:'|
>       xargs grep-dctrl --exact-match -FSection l10n --and -FEnhances desktop -sTask -n |
>       grep -v -e gnome -e kde | sed -e 's/^/ task-/' -e 's/$/,/'
> 
> The good news is that they are all co-installable.  The bad news is that not
> all software are able to pick correctly the appropriate font.  In particular,
> epiphany and chromium now display Chinese characters with Chinese glyphs even
> for texts where the indicated language is Japanese.  Fortunately, iceweasel
> picks the right fonts.
> 
> If it were posssible to tackle such issues after the Wheezy release, then I
> think that it would be worth to give our users the choice to install all
> localisation tasks. [...]

This approach would always be a corner case?
Which (average) user would be wanting all language tasks?

Since there has been no progress for 4 years, I'm tagging this bug as wontfix.


Holger

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