For the biggest languages the overall idea as expressed at
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1520278> is to include full language support
on the ISO, so those languages are complete in a live session and to
allow for an offline installation without being prompted afterwards to
install additional language support. However, since that bug was fixed,
things have changed a bit, for instance:
* The libreoffice-dictionaries source package provides more packages
* We are moving to GNOME, which means additional translated docs
For these and other reasons, there is currently a discrepancy between
which language support packages are included on the ISO for the big
languages and what's actually pulled by language-selector.
I prepared a MP in an attempt to get it better in sync:
https://code.launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.artful_lang-support/+merge/326261
Jeremy Bicha has reviewed it, and after some talk on #ubuntu-desktop we
have concluded that some of the proposed changes - which are motivated
for consistency reasons - would add to the ISO image size. The biggest
differences in size would be caused by these items:
German spell checking
---------------------
Currently in the seed (3.5 MB installed-size):
hunspell-de-at
hunspell-de-ch
hunspell-de-de
Proposed replacements (13.9 MB installed-size):
hunspell-de-at-frami
hunspell-de-ch-frami
hunspell-de-de-frami
Getting started docs
--------------------
Proposed new packages (83.1 MB installed-size):
gnome-getting-started-docs-de
gnome-getting-started-docs-es
gnome-getting-started-docs-fr
gnome-getting-started-docs-it
gnome-getting-started-docs-pt
gnome-getting-started-docs-ru
gnome-getting-started-docs-zh
There are also a few proposed gnome-user-docs-<lang> packages (12,7 MB
installed-size), but they basically replace localized ubuntu-help pages
in the language-pack-gnome-XX-base packages, so the net ISO size
difference due to desktop guide translations ought to be small.
The question I'd like to ask the team is: Would the proposed additions
to the ISO, as described above, be acceptable in order to maintain the
idea of full language support for the biggest languages?
Thanks!
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