Hi, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> (2013-03-02): > Package: tasksel > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > Le Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:57:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > on these systems, getting all the default fonts and input methods would > > > also be a big plus. For the moment we are years behind other systems > > > such as Mac OS, where at any time it is possible to switch language or > > > browse a website in a language that is not the default one of the > > > session. > > > > Amen to this. I care a lot about having fairly complete Unicode coverage > > in my display fonts, and I've often had to trawl through aptitude to try > > to guess at which font packages I need to install just to, for example, > > see the front page of Wikipedia without annoying empty squares. > > I just installed all the task-<language>-desktop packages on my computer > using equivs and a Depends field populated by the output of the following > command, run from the tasks directory of the tasksel package. > > find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -l '^Task:'| > xargs grep-dctrl --exact-match -FSection l10n --and -FEnhances desktop > -sTask -n | > grep -v -e gnome -e kde | sed -e 's/^/ task-/' -e 's/$/,/' > > The good news is that they are all co-installable. The bad news is that not > all software are able to pick correctly the appropriate font. In particular, > epiphany and chromium now display Chinese characters with Chinese glyphs even > for texts where the indicated language is Japanese. Fortunately, iceweasel > picks the right fonts. > > If it were posssible to tackle such issues after the Wheezy release, then I > think that it would be worth to give our users the choice to install all > localisation tasks. I think that I can write a patch where debian/control > would be refreshed from a template, so that at each upload the meta-task would > be always comprehensive.
I can't think of a reason why this meta package would be a bad thing, so feel free to send a patch. :) Mraw, KiBi.
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