Hey Gunnar, After reorganizing the seeds for ubuntu desktop and see which strategy we are going to take for the new installer (negative layered langpacks, I can expand on this a little bit later), I think we have a robust story to avoid the unsync we have between language-selector and the installer/live image default list.
In disco (note: not available in the daily image which isn't including the langpacks until our livecd-rootfs MP is in production: https://code.launchpad.net/~jibel/livecd-rootfs/add_multi_layered_squashfses_support/+merge/358490) * Basically, default language selection are now for the ubuntu desktop flavor seed: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu/tree/languages. There are 2 seeds for each language: - the minimal one, corresponding to the new ubuntu-desktop-minimal package: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu/tree/languages/desktop-minimal-de - the "full" one, which, in addition to the desktop-minimal one has the dictionaries, libreoffice, thunderbird and mozilla translations: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu/tree/languages/desktop-de You can see that input methods are included in some, like the chinese one: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu- seeds/+git/ubuntu/tree/languages/desktop-minimal-zh (we may have some wrong assignement, if you spot anything, feel free!) So, the idea would be: - have, for the default languages, language-selector on ubuntu-desktop using those seeds (probably picking the list at package build time?). It needs to adapt depending on the installed metapackage (ubuntu-desktop-minimal or ubuntu-desktop). Note that ubuntu-desktop installs ubuntu-desktop-minimal. - expand the heuristic for other languages for ubuntu-desktop-minimal/ubuntu-desktop. We can maybe include the regexp in the seed if that helps? That way, we have a single place where we define all languages support. In addition to this: - we remove the magic for "en" (enforcing too many time to install them). It isn't required if installing an other language - installing one language, do, as of today, install all "deviations", like fr installs fr_FR, fr_CA, fr_BE, even if those are part of other binary packages. The default languages seed should already cover that. The installer would then only rely on language-support to ensure everything installed is correctly there. What do you think? Do you have some time to work on this for this cycle? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797860 Title: Language selection installs too many packages Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Multiple issues arise when installing any languages in ubuntu: 1. if you select en_GB, en_US is selected instead 2. if you select fr_FR, fr_FR + en_US is selected 3. As soon as en_US is selected (which is always right now), en is then selected, which in turns requests installing all en_* languages. 4. ubiquity, if en_US is selected, only install en_US + en packages, but then, check-language-support wants to bring back all en_* variants (hunspell-en-au hunspell-en-ca hunspell-en-gb hunspell-en-za hyphen-en-ca hyphen-en-gb libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za mythes-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb in cosmic for instance) which were discared by ubiquity. The last point is due to /usr/share/language-tools/language-options reporting needing (in the fr_FR default installation for instance): en_US fr_FR en en_AU fr en_GB en_CA A big rework/revamp would be needed in language support, account-services and ubiquity, backed up with tests. Ideally, the seed and check-language-support will always be in sync, the list of package to install is strictly regulated by check-language-support (which is supposed to be the case below, but we see in 4. that it's not), and we limit the number of components disagreeing in which languages are installed/supported. We need to take into account ofc the debian singularirity about generated locales. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1797860/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
