Language packs vs. locales

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:25:07PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

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

Michael Vogt has implemented a system for asking this type of question in a
nice way, see InteractiveUpgradeHooks in the wiki.

There will already be such a hook for the UTF-8 transition, which will
include changing the system default locale (UTFEightMigrationTool).

In other words, I think everything is in order, and language packs do not
need to worry about which locale is chosen by the user.  It should be simple
and sensible, though, for them to cause the appropriate locales to be
generated when they are installed, so that the user can select them if
desired.

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 - mdz