Bug#208408: tetex-bin: No hyphenation patterns were loaded
* frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
> Marcus Frings <protagonist@gmx.net> schrieb:
>> I guess it is a bug because why should tetex-bin remove my previous
>> settings?
> These weren't your previous settings, it was just the default for
> everybody, spaniards, turks and japanese, to generate french and the two
> german patterns in any case. We dropped that, I was argueing very much
> in favor of this, and so this bug is kind of my fault.
Du pöser Pursche! ;-)
> (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204459)
Thanks for the hint. I saw this report before I sent mine but I didn't
read it completely up to the end. Shame on me! I believe that I better
understand the issue now.
> One possibility would be to simply switch back to the old default
> behavior. However, I would prefer something different.
I agree. In my opinion we should only keep English as default because of
the arguments mentioned in the thread above. Thus it is okay that German
patterns are no longer loaded by default. Nevertheless it is not
acceptable that languages are not loaded anymore without informing the
user about the change.
> Couldn't we check wether the hyphen question has been seen and, if yes,
> set it to unseen and warn the user about the changed defaults before
> showing it? Then only noninteractive installs will break, but people
> using this should have read debconf(7) and know in advance they have to
> manipulate the debconf database before the installation. Comments?
Sounds okay to me.
Regards,
Marcus
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