Samuel Thibault, on Sun 30 Oct 2016 22:45:59 +0100, wrote: > I have been told several times that it was a bit sad that the Debian > installer basically imposess that the translations be the same as the > locale, i.e. notably not being able to have all messages in english > while using a non-english locale. Of course we don't want to add > questions for the user to specify exactly for each LC_* which locale to > be used, but the language part seems to be asked quite often, so it > could be worth implementing it.
This is also notably a problem when installing e.g. from a serial console, where the language choice is limited to English. It might be fine enough to have d-i untranslated, but that shouldn't impose using an english locale for the whole system. Samuel
