Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 07:16, Christian Perrier wrote: > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > dictionaries settings: [...] > It seems that each time a new dictionary is added (by tasksel > set

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-12-04 Thread Agustin Martin
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:39:50PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Attached a partial log of an installation session. Note that no questions > were actually asked. I cannot seem to reproduce that behavior. > However, I still get British as default even though the locale is en_US > (in d-i language was

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
Hi again Agustin, On Friday 24 November 2006 19:47, Agustin Martin wrote: > Uploaded a new dictionaries-common package that will provide a bit more > info when configuring dicts: debconf question, question priority and > old and new debconf choices for question. Thanks for that. Attached a partia

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-24 Thread Agustin Martin
Christian Perrier wrote > I wrote >> How do you manage to install both at the same time? > > triggerred by tasksel as it seems strange, $ dpkg-source -x tasksel_2.58.dsc && grep -R ifrench tasksel-2.58/* dpkg-source: extracting tasksel in tasksel-2.58 dpkg-source: unpacking tasksel_2.58.tar.gz t

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-24 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:56:28PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:37:01PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Can you provide us with a version of the relevant package(s) (probably > > only dictionaries-common) that dump some debugging output somewhere > > (stderr will work)? >

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-23 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:37:01PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 18:05, Agustin Martin wrote: > > More things, I remember to have been prompted when apt-utils was not > > installed and so, no pre-configuration was possible or, when due to > > space limitation in the /var pa

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-23 Thread Christian Perrier
> How do you manage to install both at the same time? triggerred by tasksel as it seems > > More things, I remember to have been prompted when apt-utils was not > installed and so, no pre-configuration was possible or, when due to > space limitation in the /var partition some sort of debconf dat

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 23 November 2006 18:05, Agustin Martin wrote: > More things, I remember to have been prompted when apt-utils was not > installed and so, no pre-configuration was possible or, when due to > space limitation in the /var partition some sort of debconf database > corruption happened. > > So

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-23 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:36:09PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > > dictionaries settings: > > > > -fi

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-11-23 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > dictionaries settings: > > -first choose between American English and "handle symlinks youself" > -then choos

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-16 Thread Christian Perrier
> More funnily, this was *not* happening a while ago during my tests of > default installs in French. And I have to mention that.it did not happen anymore 2 days ago when I re-tested a full desktop install in French... Really strange. 2 weeks after, I can't really see what was special in the

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-16 Thread Agustin Martin
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > In the case where the country does not help to make a decision, it would > be nice to also try to use the country part of the locale, which at that > time is available in (/target)/etc/default/locale: >LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > Is that f

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-10 Thread Christian Perrier
> Seems that some things might have changed in d-i. At some time > (See #263402) I was told that debian-installer/language contains what's > appropriate for the LANGUAGE variable, so things like > > de_DE:de_DE:de:en_GB:en > > were expected values, and I assumed that LANG was set after first en

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-10 Thread Agustin Martin
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I normally install in English, but with country selected as Netherlands. > As no en_NL locale exists, this results in an en_US locale and the system > is completely set up for English. > > However, that does mean that I have: > debian-

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:06, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:29, Agustin Martin wrote: > > But of course there is no such rationale if you are at the first > > installation along with dictionaries-common and your system is not > > broken. > > I've been meaning to provide mor

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-06 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:06:55PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I've been meaning to provide more information (like logs from package > installation) on this and a specific, reproducible test case, but have > not found the time to do so. > I'll try to do this and will send you the info when I do. T

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-05 Thread Christian Perrier
> a) Does the problem you describe happens with wordlists too? Code is >similar the the ispell dicts one. The only difference was that >localization-config interfered with the ispell dict code while not with >wordlist. In Frans example, wamerican+dictionaries-common should have >tr

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:29, Agustin Martin wrote: > But of course there is no such rationale if you are at the first > installation along with dictionaries-common and your system is not > broken. I've been meaning to provide more information (like logs from package installation) on this an

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-05 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:03:48PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Frans reports that he has seen this for a pretty long time for English > installs, indeed. ~ 6 months, not full sarge lifetime, and he also mentions that the problem cannot be reproduced at will. > Anyway, is there still a ra

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-05 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Agustin Martin wrote: > > I suppose this also means that all packages not having special > > pre-dependencies are configured at the end. Otherwise if all ispell dicts > > are > > configured and a reasonable default selected, if another d

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Agustin Martin wrote: > I suppose this also means that all packages not having special > pre-dependencies are configured at the end. Otherwise if all ispell dicts are > configured and a reasonable default selected, if another dict is configured > before the good option is unpacked, things will fail

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-03 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Agustin Martin wrote: > > Seems that lang tasks are processed as independent processes, not merged > > into a global install (along with dictionaries-comon, if required), and that > > is the reason for the multiple calls. > > tasksel ins

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
Agustin Martin wrote: > Seems that lang tasks are processed as independent processes, not merged > into a global install (along with dictionaries-comon, if required), and that > is the reason for the multiple calls. tasksel installs all selected tasks with a single aptitude run. Of course, aptitud

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-03 Thread Christian Perrier
> > It seems that each time a new dictionary is added (by tasksel > > settings), the user is then prompted at high priority. > > Seems that lang tasks are processed as independent processes, not merged > into a global install (along with dictionaries-comon, if required), and that > is the reason f

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-03 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:54:34PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 07:16, Christian Perrier wrote: > > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > > dictionaries settings: > > > >

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-03 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:16:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > dictionaries settings: > > -first choose between American English and "handle symlinks yo

Re: Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 07:16, Christian Perrier wrote: > While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French > language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for > dictionaries settings: > > -first choose between American English and "handle symlinks youself" >

Dictionaries-common prompts users FIVE times during a default French desktop install

2006-10-02 Thread Christian Perrier
While testing D-I with the install of the desktop task in French language, I have noticed that there are several successive prompts for dictionaries settings: -first choose between American English and "handle symlinks youself" -then choose between American English, "francais" and "handle symlinks