Default papersize (/etc/papersize) should be set according to selected location
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I selected Finland as the location during the installer and still I have "letter" in the /etc/papersize. It should say "a4" after installation.
Considering that "letter" is used by default only in the Northern America it would make sense to have "a4" by default in the /etc/papersize and change that to "letter" only if required. Most of the world is already using a4 paper size.
See also bug 393818.
I also find it interesting that /etc/papersize is not owned by any package but it's documented by libpaper1 package (it owns the manual page documenting the /etc/papersize file). I think it would make sense to include this file in the libpaper1 as a configuration file. The default contents of /etc/papersize should be "a4".
Hmm. It's definitely supposed to be updated to match the locale. We'll have to look at this, thanks.
Don't mess with the file ownership :-) There are subtle semantic distinctions between "conffile" and "configuration file" at work here, and it does make sense for it to be the way it is. Unfortunately there is no way to register a configuration file as owned by a package without invoking special semantics that do not make sense in this specific case. This has been on the dpkg wishlist for a long time.