ubiquity location always set to Algiers

[Pelládi Gábor]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Using current Intrepid 8.10, ubiquity 1.9.16. No matter what language I choose on the first page, on the second page the location will be set to Algiers. Furthermore, the keyboard layout will be set to USA.
Expected behavior: If I select Hungarian language, the location should be set to Budapest (Hungary), and the keyboard layout to Hungarian.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Reproduced, thanks. Odd ...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is a debconf bug, amazingly enough:

debconf (developer): <-- METAGET localechooser/continentlist Choices-en.UTF-8
debconf (developer): --> 1

debconf should fall back to Choices here, but doesn't.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The keyboard layout bug seems to be something separate.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Actually, the keyboard part of this bug is bug 253749. Rather than try to mark half of this bug as a duplicate somehow, I'll just suggest that you subscribe to that bug if you're interested in its resolution! I should have it fixed soon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debconf - 1.5.23ubuntu1

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debconf (1.5.23ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - Fall back to untranslated fields if asking explicitly for any
      nonexistent translated field, not just Choices-C. For example, asking
      for Choices-en.UTF-8 should fall back to Choices if Choices-en.UTF-8
      doesn't exist. LP: #271652
    - Remove some dead code in Debconf::Template::AUTOLOAD.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:59:06 +0100