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Re: Advice on debconf - locales settings



Brian Sutherland wrote:
> I have quite a difficult config file problem to debconfify, and would
> like to ask advice.
> 
> The config file can contain a number of lang $locale settings, of which
> the first is the requested translation and the rest are backups.
> 
> How best to keep the ordering. Multiple select questions in series as a
> multiselect doesn't provide ordering?

I'd suggest keeping in mind that debconf is intended to be used to ask
the questions that a user needs to answer to get a package installed and
focus on those questions, not on turning debconf into some kind of
generic config file editor that it was never intended to be used for.

-- 
see shy jo

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