Hello. I just found that in d-i pre-rc2 images (linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer) russian installation is broken.
Some time ago, I've proposed installation of console-cyrillic package at 1st stage if russian language is selected. Then, code was added to termwrap to use 'cyr' utility (provided by console-cyrillic) to set up cyrillic console for base-config. If 'cyr' is not available, that code just resets locale to C, to avoid attempts to show russian text on console not capable to show it. This used to work some weeks ago. Since then, I didn't have a change to test, until yesterday. Yesterday I needed to install a system, and found that d-i pre-rc2 images don't install console-cyrillic on 1st stage for some reason. So there is no russian at 2nd stage. And this has a side effect that I didn't notice before - base-config and tasksel run in C locale, causing packages appropriate for russian system are not being installed by default. The resulting system (after installation) is configured to use russian locale by default, but console can't show russian characxters (that are printed by many tools, including dpkg), does not have packages needed for russian installed. Saying in short - system is somewhat broken. I think this is bad enough to require a fix before sarge. The fix should: - restore installation of console-cyrillic at 1st stage, - probably not reset LANG to C in termwrap if cyr is not available, but only set LC_MESSAGES to C. Nikita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
