On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:16:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > dictionaries settings: > > -first choose between American English and "handle symlinks youself"
This first one has a different origin. At this time localization-config decided that default is french, but french is not (yet) to be installed, only American, so when configuring dictionaries-common ispell symlink cannot be set and an error is triggered, offering the really installed options. > -then choose between American English, "francais" and "handle symlinks > youself" > -then choose between "francais", "francais GUTenberg" and "handle symlinks > youself" > -then choose between "ameriucan English", "francais", "francais GUTenberg" > and "handle symlinks youself" > -finally choose between "american English", "british", "francais", "francais > GUTenberg" and "handle symlinks youself" > > It seems that each time a new dictionary is added (by tasksel > settings), the user is then prompted at high priority. Seems that lang tasks are processed as independent processes, not merged into a global install (along with dictionaries-comon, if required), and that is the reason for the multiple calls. This should not happen if all desired ispell dicts (or wordlists) are installed simultaneously along with dictionaries-common. By the way, are wordlists not installed, showing similar behavior? > This makes the default install a real pain, unfortunately, and this > sounds really strange. > > More funnily, this was *not* happening a while ago during my tests of > default installs in French. May be because tasks were installed in other way at that time, and french dict was present for the first global dicts installation along with dictionaries-common. dictionaries-common code is mostly the same than in sarge, # apt-get install ibritish ifrench ifrench-gut should prompt just once if they are not installed. BTW, ifrench and ifrench-gut conflict, is strange to see "francais", "francais GUTenberg" as options. May be there is a bad relationship there. > Is there something we can do about this...hopefully *before* Etch ? How are lang tasks handled in current d-i? > I suggest keeping the CC list in answers, unless Agustin explicitely > says that [EMAIL PROTECTED] really reaches him (@p.d.o > addresses need X-PTS-Approved headers, IIRC). IIRC, as maintainer I should receive [EMAIL PROTECTED], as well as Rafael and Rene from their PTS suscription. However, I do not know if it needs special headers. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
