[Bug 719815] Re: Please backport gdm and language-selector to Lucid and Maverick

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

  Ever since the Ubuntu language support feature was changed to
  distinguish between language for message translation and non-language
  locales such as date formats, it has not played well with GDM's language
  chooser. Example: People who want date formats, default paper sizes etc.
  match their current geographical location, while using some other locale
  for controlling message translation, have encountered confusing,
  unexpected behavior.
  
  Detailed descriptions and discussion can be found at bug 553162, and fixes have been released in Natty. The four branches, to which I have linked below, contain equivalent fixes for Lucid and Maverick, and I suggest that those branches are used to build packages for lucid-backports and maverick-backports. The branches were uploaded to my PPA, and the resulting builds have been tested successfully.
- https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test
+ https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/lang-backports
  Hence I give this bug the status "Confirmed".
  
  I was about to nominate the fixes for SRUs, but was told that they
  include too much of changed behavior to qualify. Nevertheless, the
  rationale and discussion on regression risk at the top of the
  description of bug 553162 apply to this backports request as well.
  
  Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help process
  this request.

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Title:
  Please backport gdm and language-selector to Lucid and Maverick