Pasting some exchanges on IRC:
bubulle fjp: SHORTLIST_TRANSLATED is whatr is in the translations, SHORTLIST is in the
original template
bubulle in other words, the original values are: Belgium, Netherlands, other
and SHORTLIST has "Belgium, Netherland" when language is nl
bubulle and translated values are "België, Nederland, andere" and
SHORTLIST_TRANSLATED has "België, Nerderland"
bubulle The default, inherited from languagechooser is "Netherlands" or more
precisely the 2nd value of the list....
joeyh I was thinking last night that it would probably be faster and use
less space to make countrychooser ship with N predefined country shortlist templates,
one for each language in languagechooser, each would be translated into only the
language you must select to get it
fjp bubulle: but if I do countrychooser/debian/po$ grep SHORT *, I only
get "${SHORTLIST}", so that is what will be shown to the user...
bubulle fjp: sure....but one the tempaltes I have in the package I hacked you
would have ${SHORTLIST_TRANSLATED] in all Choices-xx fields
fjp I think you need to also replace "${SHORTLIST}" by
"${SHORTLIST_TRANSLATED}" in the .po files
bubulle fjp: done....at least in fr and nl which is enough for my tests
fjp OK, that's what I was just checking as my first idea of what might be
wrong...
bubulle joeyh: that may be an idea but indeed, the templates are already
virtually fixed at build time anyway
fjp continues thinking
joeyh there's some very slow (on older HW) stuff done at runtime
fjp joeyh: see me idea for the UTC problem in tzconfig?
bubulle yep, this is the cat_shortlist function
fjp s/me/my/
joeyh fjp: yes, but I think I'll just leave it as is for sarge and fix it
right (format strings for hwclock) after
bubulle joeyh: fixing translations in templates would just save us the
/etc/shortlists file which is currently 1939 bytes
joeyh it would also solve your issue with it using localised values in the
choices list
bubulle but this would make the templates file bigger
bubulle joeyh: yes
bubulle tries to imagine how we could generate the Choices-xx fields at build
time.
bubulle probable *after* dh_installdebconf by hacking the generated
DEBIAN/templates file
fjp joeyh: Wouldn't that mean that you would have to know what format
string is preferred for each locale (if you still want to present the time in local
format)?
bubulle joeyh: I think this can be done, yes
bubulle as a side effect, this would save us the long blue screen on old HW
bubulle I think we have the idea
bubulle let's paste this in the BTS...:-)
As a conclusion, the plan could be something like:
in debian/rules, after dh_installdebconf, put something like this
for po in debian/po/*po ; do
lang=`basename $po .po`
.../...
(some stuff for building a list of countries for which lang has
at least one valid locale --> $SHORTLIST_TRANSLATED$
cat debian/countrychooser/DEBIAN/templates | sed \
'/^Choices-${lang}.UTF-8/s/SHORTLIST/${SHORTLIST_TRANSLATED}/' \
>debian/countrychooser/DEBIAN/templates.new
use new templates
done
I'll hack some dirty stuff and then after, some better shell script
writer will be able to clean my mess../-)
As a side effect, this would save the very slow call to
cat_shortlist() in postinst and speed up contrychooser a lot.
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