[karmic] Regression from 9.04 in getting fully translated Ubuntu installation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Translations |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Aron Xu | ||
language-selector |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Arne Goetje | ||
pkgsel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Karmic |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Because of moving a lot of translations and spell-checking functionality from language-
I also argue that any notification that would be displayed (currently it seems not, tested on daily 20090921 image in virtualbox) will not get the wanted "click me" effect for enough users, so only a truly automatic way would be needed to match Ubuntu 9.04. It should also be error-proof, so it's not just a one-time tryout after installation which would fail in case of no Internet connectivity etc.
Specifically in case of Finnish, because of how bug #409764 was handled (dependency removed from language-
My completely-
a) Installer would co-operate with language-selector to install everything during installation time, if Internet connection happens to be enabled (something like language-selector --fix-missing)
b) After installation, update-manager (?) would make certain the whole language support is downloaded together with first updates succesfully (one time, but so that it ends in non-error)
In theory I like how language-selector is used to keep sure of proper language support, but IMHO proper co-operation between installer and update-manager (just one candidate) plus language-selector is needed.
So the question also is - against which packages this bug should be filed. Language-selector could need some new functionality, but maybe it's all there already ready to be used by other applications. Ubiquity? Update-manager?
Changed in language-selector: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) |
Changed in pkgsel (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-9.10 |
Changed in pkgsel (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-9.10 |
tags: | added: regression-potential |
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
assignee: | nobody → Aron Xu (happyaron) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in language-selector: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
tags: |
added: regression-release removed: regression-potential |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
I'm currently working on a command line tool to be run by other applications, which returns the list of missing packages based on a given language code or all languages which are already installed as language-packs on the system.
The original plan was to change the packages, like openoffice.org-core and others to run this script during postinst and display the notification message when something is returned. The user will still need to launch language-selector to install the missing packages.
I hope, that for 10.04 we can integrate this functionality into the installer and update-manager (at least) directly, so that they can dynamically adjust the dependencies during evaluation what to install.
As you know already, this only works if an Internet connection is available. That would need to be solved, too...
I guess this is something for UDS Lucid.