(Keep me on CC, I'm not on debian-boot) Hello,
I just debugged an issue where live-installer would not work when you opted for an Italian installation. The commit below has my explanation of the problem and a tested fix. That said I'm not very familiar with the internals of main-menu and this interpretation comes from my reading of the source code, not from direct experience (main-menu's interesting logs are commented out and since it's embedded in the initrd I couldn't easily replace it on the live ISO used for the tests). Thus I would appreciate a review by someone more familiar with main menu. In particular, given my explanation of the problem, I would have expected the problem to not be solved without changing the Italian translation but keeping the duplicate Italian translation and reducing Installer-Menu-Item to 6490 was enough to fix the problem. I still fixed the Italian translation because it was the right thing to do anyway. (Note that I fixed it in packages/po/sublevel3/it.po too...) I believe that this fix should go into wheezy. If you want me to upload it by myself, let me know. Otherwise I'll happily let Christian upload it. Here's my commit: commit 85fb0ea0b6147a62a53ec8f5c0940c8276b59145 Author: Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Date: Wed Feb 6 15:06:41 2013 +0100 Reduce Installer-Menu-Item to 6490 and fix Italian translation The goal is to ensure that the udeb takes precedence over bootstrap-base. This fixes installation from a live media in Italian. TTBOMK the explanation is the following: bootstrap-base and live-installer are pulled in the menu via the "installed-base" virtual package that they provide. Thus the following comment of "main-menu" applies: /* Compile a list of providing package. The default choice will be the * package with highest priority. If we have ties, menu items are * preferred. If we still have ties, the default choice is arbitrary */ bootstrap-base is of priority required while live-installer is of priority optional, but udpkg doesn't store the Priority in /var/lib/dpkg/status thus both packages are of equal priority when main-menu compares them. Since both packages also have Installer-Menu-Item 6500, the default choice is supposed to be arbitrary. But even if arbitrary, the choice always ended up selecting live-installer (as wanted) in a somewhat consistent way across all languages, except for Italian. As far I could understand, the reason why Italian behaves differently is that the translation of the menu items for "bootstrap-base" and "live-installer" are the same string "Installare il sistema base" and this is thus confusing the debian-installer/missing-provide debconf prompt which lets the user choose between both. Other translations have different strings (and the underlying English strings are also different "Install the base system" vs "Install the system"). diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 4562746..7af70a6 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +live-installer (40) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Reduce Installer-Menu-Item to 6490 to take precedence over + bootstrap-base in the ordering computed by d-i's main-menu. + * Change Italian translation of "Install the system" to something + else than base-installer's Italian translation of "Install the base + system" (“Installare il sistema base” → “Installare il sistema”) to + avoid confusing debconf with a list of two identical entries. + + -- Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:35:23 +0100 + live-installer (39) unstable; urgency=low [ Raphaël Hertzog ] diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index d29aacf..9854c50 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, archdetect, base-installer (>= 1.105), busybox-udeb (>= 1:1.13.3), cdebconf-udeb, created-fstab, mounted-partitions Provides: installed-base, kernel-installer -XB-Installer-Menu-Item: 6500 +XB-Installer-Menu-Item: 6490 Description: Install the system diff --git a/debian/po/it.po b/debian/po/it.po index c228831..b9edced 100644 --- a/debian/po/it.po +++ b/debian/po/it.po @@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ msgstr "" #. :sl3: #: ../live-installer.templates:1001 msgid "Install the system" -msgstr "Installare il sistema base" +msgstr "Installare il sistema" #. Type: text #. Description #. :sl3: #: ../live-installer.templates:2001 msgid "Installing the system..." -msgstr "Installazione del sistema base..." +msgstr "Installazione del sistema..." #. Type: text #. Description -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130206152655.ga31...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com