>From Joey Hess status update on D-I: > - Bubulle has started working through testing every language with > complete install tests and is documenting the results in the > release-checklist file. With a nearly final d-i release ready, now is > a good time to go through that checklist and make sure everything > still works and any problems are documented.
See the results in installer/doc/release-checklist in d-i SVN tree. All tests were made with "linux26" and a preseed file. The goal was testing the installed environment. This means that NO check was made on d-i screens (brokeness, spelling, display) except those you see when doing an unattended installation (and most of the time, I wasn't behind my screen, of course!). The installed systems were base systems (no desktop, no graphical environment). I tested the keyboard input as much as I could. The tests were more focused on what is displayed to the screen, after the install and, when needed, after a reboot. Nearly all languages pass the test. Critical problems, which make some languages "fail": ---------------------------------------------------- Albanese : loop at the end of 2nd stage Needs investigation Lithuanian : missing lt.kmap in console-data udeb #277166. Needs console-data upload Persian : missing characters (not sure but highly probable) Bug still not reported ? Serbian : uses mostly Bosnian as fallback both languages are very close...some even say that "Bosnian" is just Serbian written in latin characters Potential bad "political" implications there again No real solution yet Annoying problems (languages "pass" anyway): -------------------------------------------- Chinese (both), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew: Mojibake when localized strings appear at the console All these languages works inside jfbterm, though There's no good console environment so no real solution Other languages which are non Latin-1: (Cyrillic, Turkish and "Eastern" European languages mostly) A reboot is needed for avoiding display problems with non Latin characters #250789 A few exim4 screens were found broken because of the use of unescaped commas in a Choices list. Patch sent to exim4 source package. Upload in preparation.