Hi, cc: the debconf maintainers, the po-debconf maintainer and bubulle, as I have no idea how to fix this... In Debian Edu (where we use a modified d-i) we have a problem with the profile question in the the debian-edu-profile-udeb.template. The profile question is asked quite in the beginning (after language selection and configuring the network) and determines how the machine shall be used. In expert mode the questions differs a bit, the explaining text is longer and there are more profiles to choose from. The problem manifests itself in: - normal-prio text-mode english is almost fine, though it seems there would be space to display all four possible choices, but this is really mine. Compared to the rest I consider it fine. - normal-prio text-mode german is really broken, you cannot see what you have to choose. - expert-prio text-mode english is broken, almost the same as text-mode german. - expert-prio text-mode german is fine(!), there are two screens shown: first the text and on the second the possible choices. - graphical installer is always fine, there is more space (And is similar for other languages as well.) Screenshots are available at http://layer-acht.org/edi/ The template itself is available at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-edu/trunk/src/debian-edu-install/debian/debian-edu-profile-udeb.templates This is all lenny with debian-edu-install from sid. (And should you want to test yourself, the cd image is available with "rsync -vt ftp.skolelinux.no::cd-lenny-test-i386/debian-edu-i386-CD-1.iso debian-edu-i386-CD-1.iso") I'm sending this mail also to the debconf maintainers as Christian suggested there might be a bug in debconf involved. To me it seems the splitting into two "srceens" (not sure about the terminology) as it happens in expert-mode in german should also happen for the other text-mode cases. Is there a way to force this splitting, but only for text-mode? (As the graphical installer has enough space to display everything correctly.) I'd be very grateful for some hints how to fix this. regards, Holger
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