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Bug#1017435: debian-installer: georgian text mode fails to render all characters



Roland Clobus, le sam. 07 janv. 2023 11:31:29 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 06/01/2023 16:20, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Roland Clobus, le ven. 06 janv. 2023 13:38:34 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > With the attached script you can generate a list of all characters that are
> > > used in the translations. That can be used to determine the minimal set of
> > > required characters.
> > 
> > We already do that in the debian installer, but that is not enough to be
> > reasonably sure that this covers all questions that might happen during
> > installation, since questions could be asked by any udeb. That's why we
> > rather request for a an explicit file from actual translators.
> 
> I agree. But the work for the translators can be reduced by automatically
> parsing the work they have already done (i.e. the translations).

Ah ok I misread what you meant. Yes that can be a good base, which can
then be proofread by translators.

> In order not to miss any translated text, I've updated the script to parse
> all .udeb files that are present on the installation medium and extract the
> template from them. This ensures that all questions that might happen during
> installation will be could.
> Or... are additional udebs downloaded on demand?

It seems from the list.gz files that udebs are on the first iso, and
from the debian-cd exclude files that the only udebs which are not there
are the ones which are already included in the d-i initrd.

I doesn't seem that your current script looks at the udebs included in
the initrd?

Samuel


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