Bug#185831: Bug#196774: Plans for fixing this bug ?
Quoting Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp):
> if "french" is translated to "francais" (I don't know the way
> to write French letters ;), did the above shell script work?
> that is $RET = french even if templates were translated as
> "francais"?
$RET is ALWAYS the english choice. Debconf only keeps the original
choices in its database.
Similarly, when you use a boolean template (showing Yes/No choices
with the dialog interface...or Oui/Non if you use french locales), the
returned value is always "true" or "false"....
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