reassign 847056 forcemerge 847056 842630 thanks Quoting Christian Iversen (ci+debb...@iversenit.dk): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: l10n d-i > > Hello d-i, et al > > I live in Denmark, but almost always set up servers in english, to make > collaboration easier. > > This means the en_DK.utf-8 locale is my preferred choice. > > However, I can no longer (I believe it broke in jessie, perhaps before) select > it in the installer. > > I select "English", then "Europe" then "Copenhagen", and I am told that there > is no locale available for my combination of choices. This is, of course, > wrong. > > I then have to either fix up the system later, go through expert install, or > increase debconf priority (a trick I just learned today). > > Why the bug happens, I'm not quite sure, but I have a suspicion. Denmark is > one > of the few countries in the world, where the language and country codes do not > align (language: "da", country: "dk"). Perhaps the installer is checking the > wrong one of these? > > Let me know how I can help!
This is indeed bug #842630 (sort of). Please also notice that, last time I checked, the en_DK locale is only meant to be a kind of proof of concept and historical stuff by locales' upstream and not something that should be in production (otherwise we would have as many en_* locales as there are countries in the world.).
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