The patch for solving #269972 (should warn users about English being temporarily used during floppy installs even when choosing another language) was waiting for a better method to "recognize" floppy installs than the one I initially proposed.
Thanks to Sven Luther for the initial idea and to Joey Hess for the implementation of the X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM variable in /etc/lsb-release, this is now possible and here is the refined patch I intend to apply. --
diff -Nru localechooser.orig/debian/localechooser.templates-in
localechooser/debian/localechooser.templates-in
--- localechooser.orig/debian/localechooser.templates-in 2006-09-07
17:56:58.003192000 +0200
+++ localechooser/debian/localechooser.templates-in 2006-09-07
18:00:46.345462500 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
# Example (french): Choisir la langue/Choose language
_Description: Choose language
+Template: localechooser/no-translations-yet
+Type: note
+Description: Translations temporarily not available
+ Because of the low available space on the installation media, translations
+ will not be available immediately.
+ .
+ The installation will continue in English until the installer
+ loads packages that include translations from a CD or the network.
+
Template: languagechooser/language-name-ascii
Type: select
Choices: @languagenames_ascii@
diff -Nru localechooser.orig/localechooser localechooser/localechooser
--- localechooser.orig/localechooser 2006-09-07 17:56:58.011192500 +0200
+++ localechooser/localechooser 2006-09-07 18:02:41.436655250 +0200
@@ -289,6 +289,12 @@
:
fi
+[ -f /etc/lsb-release ] && . /etc/lsb-release
+if [ "$X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM" = "floppy" ] ; then
+ db_input high localechooser/no-translations-yet || true
+ db_go || true
+fi
+
db_set "debconf/language" "$LANGUAGELIST"
log "Set debconf/language = '$LANGUAGELIST'"
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