Public bug reported:
Multiple issues arise when installing any languages in ubuntu:
1. if you select en_GB, en_US is selected instead
2. if you select fr_FR, fr_FR + en_US is selected
3. As soon as en_US is selected (which is always right now), en is then
selected, which in turns requests installing all en_* languages.
4. ubiquity, if en_US is selected, only install en_US + en packages, but then,
check-language-support wants to bring back all en_* variants (hunspell-en-au
hunspell-en-ca hunspell-en-gb hunspell-en-za hyphen-en-ca hyphen-en-gb
libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za
mythes-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb in cosmic for instance) which were
discared by ubiquity.
The last point is due to /usr/share/language-tools/language-options reporting
needing (in the fr_FR default installation for instance):
en_US
fr_FR
en
en_AU
fr
en_GB
en_CA
A big rework/revamp would be needed in language support, account-services and
ubiquity, backed up with tests.
Ideally, the seed and check-language-support will always be in sync, the list
of package to install is strictly regulated by check-language-support (which is
supposed to be the case below, but we see in 4. that it's not), and we limit
the number of components disagreeing in which languages are installed/supported.
We need to take into account ofc the debian singularirity about
generated locales.
** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Language selection installs too many packages
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