Processed: Re: Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-11-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 552560 pending Bug #552560 [localechooser] Should off all possible locales when language_country does not fit an existing locale Added tag(s) pending. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Deb

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.29.1147 +]: > But maybe it's time to drop support for non-UTF-8 locales altogether? +1, but there are people who will not like it. I think Peter Palfrader is just one of those who (pretend to) not want/need Unicode. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related p

Re: Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > Martin, Christian: please give this image a try. > > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/ > > New (and working) version uploaded. Ah, this is an amd64 image..:-)...and my only currently working emulation setup is x86-based only (VirtualBox-OS

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first > > ask which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default > > from the selected locales. > > That's actually quite

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system > > > default, and I tried expert mode. > > > > Sorry, you are correct. Reopening. > > A possible solution could be to invert the t

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > That's actually quite simple to implement and even simplifies the code > quite a bit. > > Martin, Christian: please give this image a try. > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/ Eh, sorry. This is broken. Please ignore for now. -- To UN

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it > in locales That is very much the least preferred solution, and, even if it were accepted in libc, I would be in favor of excluding it (at least from the shortlist for

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.29.1015 +0100]: > A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask > which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default from the > selected locales. This is precisely what locales' postinst will do. -- .''`. martin f.

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system > > default, and I tried expert mode. > > Sorry, you are correct. Reopening. A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask which extra locales to inst

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 552560 thanks On Wednesday 28 October 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.27.2305 +0100]: > > You can choose en_GB if you install in expert mode (or with > > priority=medium). I don't think we want to set defaults for unofficial > > languages. The number of possib

Processed: Re: Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 552560 Bug #552560 {Done: Frans Pop } [localechooser] Should off all possible locales when language_country does not fit an existing locale > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org): > also sprach Christian Perrier [2009.10.28.0726 +0100]: > > - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it > > in locales > > You should know me better, Christian! #552561 ;) I'm not sure I would support it strongly as it would

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.27.2305 +0100]: > You can choose en_GB if you install in expert mode (or with > priority=medium). I don't think we want to set defaults for unofficial > languages. The number of possible combinations would be insane, and its > also more a matter of personal prefer

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-28 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 552560 localechooser retitle 552560 Should off all possible locales when language_country does not fit an existing locale thanks Quoting martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org): > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20091026-1 > Severity: wishlist > Usertags: debianbook > > I chose Englis

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Perrier [2009.10.28.0726 +0100]: > - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it > in locales You should know me better, Christian! #552561 ;) Thanks for your other replies. It all makes sense, of course. Yes, I installed as expert. Yes, I think we ca

Processed: Re: Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 552560 localechooser Bug #552560 {Done: Frans Pop } [debian-installer] locale selection incomplete Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'localechooser'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions 20091026-1. > retitle 552560

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
Package: debian-installer Version: 20091026-1 Severity: wishlist Usertags: debianbook I chose English/Switzerland in the language & country selection dialogs, and d-i then offered only the en_US locales. Arguably, there should be en_CH, given the international orientation of Switzerland, but while