skip timezone selection

[Jack Yu]

this is used for a chinese customized release named "ubuntukylin" . We want the option do not show the timezone selection screen because we know the timezone in China.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Per Colin, we don't want to do this by default in Ubuntu for all single-timezone locales because the behavior in the expat corner case is quite pathological (tz selection is tied to mirror selection). But for an image intended for use in China, it should be ok to extend ubiquity to allow a preseeded override to hide the tz selection.

[Jack Yu (jackyu)]

Hi Colin, is anyone developing on this? we are going to create a branch and working on this bug.

[Jack Yu (jackyu)]

The bug #1103263 contains the requirement in this one. So we will try to solve that one.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.14.5

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ubiquity (2.14.5) raring; urgency=low

  * Revert LC_TIME change from previous upload since at least
    language-selector also needs to be brought into sync, and it's too late
    for 13.04.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: localechooser 2.49ubuntu4.

ubiquity (2.14.4) raring; urgency=low

  * Set LC_TIME to reflect the language rather than the location, as the
    lesser of two evils since it includes translations of day and month
    names (LP: #1160441).
  * Allow preseeding "ubiquity ubiquity/automatic/timezone boolean true" to
    skip the timezone question (LP: #1097113). This is intended to be part
    of a more general mechanism, but not a week before release.
  * Update translations from Launchpad.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: localechooser 2.49ubuntu3.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:28:16 +0100