> Seems that some things might have changed in d-i. At some time > (See #263402) I was told that debian-installer/language contains what's > appropriate for the LANGUAGE variable, so things like > > de_DE:de_DE:de:en_GB:en > > were expected values, and I assumed that LANG was set after first entry > there along with the encoding info, so I got info from that place. That > way, I expected d-i/language to be something like > > debian-installer/language=en_US:en > > which should work, as well as things like in the "de_DE:..." above example. > I do not know if this still how d-i works, or plain english is an exception > where only "en" is written. What is d-i currently doing?
Hmmm, you're puzzling even me..:-) From the current localechooser code, I'd say thet d-i/language still contains the full list of possible values. But Frans (and even I) told you the opposite so I actually don't know anymore, frankly. > > > Is that feasible as a wishlist request? > > Of course, if d-i does not set the info I expected in d-i/language and > there is no simpler way to handle this. As a matter of fact > "/etc/default/locale" gives the lang_country info I expected from > d-i/language. When was "/etc/default/locale" introduced? If it is >=sarge, > things are simpler for me, do not have to check if we are upgrading > from <=woody. This is post-sarge, yes.
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