Language packs vs. locales

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Rui Tiago Matos [2005-01-23 18:41 +0000]:
> And what about a little debconf question to ask for the desired
> default? I know Ubuntu's policy is the KISS paradigm but a question
> like this should be asked at least on the Hoary upgrade for 2 reasons:
> 
> 1. The locales packages only now are being introduced.
> 2. The transition to UTF-8 as only happened now.

Having some sort of question as part of the Warty->Hoary update seems
reasonable to me.

However, adding a debconf question to the language pack is madness:

- the user already chose the default locale at system installation

- users would not see this question a second time anyway

- it is unreasonable to assume that the default locale should be
  changed whenever a new language is added

- changing the Desktop locale is easy enough using gdm

Martin

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