Package: tasksel
Version: 2.14
Followup-For: Bug #278186
Christian Perrier wrote:
> When preseeding tasksel, the value(s) preseeded in tasksel/first must
> use the localized names.
>
> For instance, if D-I was run in French and one wants to install the
> Dektop tasks, tasksel/first must be preseeded with "Environnement
> graphique de bureau" and not "Desktop environment".
No, debconf is designed so that choices values are always in English.
Here is a (not fully tested) patch to build a rightfully localized
choices list. It can surely be improved, but the main point is to
build 2 lists (in English and another language) and perform 2 different
substitutions so that Choices and Choices-xx fields are expanded as if
they had been computed at build time by po2debconf.
Denis
Index: tasksel.pl
===================================================================
--- tasksel.pl (revision 816)
+++ tasksel.pl (working copy)
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@
}
if (%data) {
$data{relevance}=5 unless exists $data{relevance};
- $data{shortdesc}=dgettext("debian-tasks",
$data{description}->[0]);
+ $data{shortdesc}=$data{description}->[0];
+ $data{shortdesctrans}=dgettext("debian-tasks",
$data{shortdesc});
push @ret, \%data;
}
}
@@ -252,8 +253,9 @@
# Converts a list of tasks into a debconf list of their short descriptions.
sub task_to_debconf {
+ my $field = shift;
join ", ", map {
- my $desc=$_->{shortdesc};
+ my $desc=$_->{$field};
if ($desc=~/, /) {
warning("task ".$_->{task}." contains a comma in its short
description: \"$desc\"");
}
@@ -415,8 +417,10 @@
my @default = grep { $_->{_display} == 1 && ($_->{_install} == 1 ||
$_->{_installed} == 1) } @tasks;
my $tmpfile=`tempfile`;
chomp $tmpfile;
- system($debconf_helper, $tmpfile, task_to_debconf(@list),
- task_to_debconf(@default),
+ system($debconf_helper, $tmpfile,
+ task_to_debconf("shortdesc", @list),
+ task_to_debconf("shortdesctrans", @list),
+ task_to_debconf("shortdesc", @default),
$question);
open(IN, "<$tmpfile");
my $ret=<IN>;
Index: debian/rules
===================================================================
--- debian/rules (revision 816)
+++ debian/rules (working copy)
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_installdebconf
+ perl -pi -e 's/^Choices: \$${CHOICES}/Choices: \$${ORIGCHOICES}/'
debian/tasksel/DEBIAN/templates
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
Index: tasksel-debconf
===================================================================
--- tasksel-debconf (revision 816)
+++ tasksel-debconf (working copy)
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@
tmpfile=$1
choices="$2"
-defaults="$3"
-question=$4
+choicestrans="$3"
+defaults="$4"
+question=$5
db_settitle tasksel/title
-db_subst $question CHOICES "$choices"
+db_subst $question ORIGCHOICES "$choices"
+db_subst $question CHOICES "$choicestrans"
# Allow tasksel/first to be preseeded. If it's marked as seen, then
# it must have been preseeded, and that overrides any defaults set by
