Re: Bug#238750: FWD: Re: categorising installation report
(enlarging the scope of this....this is about a Debian Installer beta3
installation report by tischler@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, forwarded
by Joey Hess in -boot)
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> > > * And last there is no questions about locales (dpkg-reconfigure
> > > locales). So you have to add locales by yourself and choose your standard
> > > locale (in case you wanted UTF8 or something like that) for example.
> >
> > Didn't the installer use the locale matching the language you chose at the
> > very beginning of the install? It should be all set up in /etc/locale.gen
> > for you.
>
> Yes, your're right. ISO 8859 was set as standard because I selected en_US as
> installation language. I just liked it more when I was able to decide what I
> wanted as standard.
My rough opinion about this is :
-locales should be installed as soon as anything else than en_US is
chosen in languagechooser/countrychooser
-I'm not sure whether it is Good to install the package with the en_US
choice. We maybe need a "POSIX" choice in languagechooser (not very
newbie friendly, however)
-the locales debconf choices (locales/default_environment_locale)
should be seeded with debian-installer/locales. So should be seeded
one choice for locales/locales_to_be_generated (multiselect)
-this choice is asked at medium priority by the locales package. Thus,
high priority installs will just get the languagechooser locale as
default locale. We should arrange for medium priority installs to ask
the question about locales...with default choices seeded from
debian-installer/locales
Indeed, I'm pretty sure I made a BR about locales debconf seeding with
debian-installer/locales, but I can't get my hands on it..:-)
I think the discussion is opened and I suggest we keep it crossposted
to -boot and -glibc.
(see Reply-To and change it if you disagree..:-)))
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