Missing translations

[Raphaël Doursenaud]

The packages oem-config oem-config-keyboard and oem-config-locale are not
translated in Breezy RC1. I've not been able to find these in launchpad. They
heavily need translations. I'm French and plan to use it at a local store but I
can't if the first interface presented to the user is in english! Please upload
po files to launchpad so I we can make it in time, hopefully.
Thanks.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

As far as I can tell, it's not a problem of lack of translations; we (mostly
...) reuse strings from the installer, together with their translations. The
problem seems to be that, when you switch language, oem-config doesn't generate
the new locale, so glibc and thus debconf falls back to English. I'll look at
this today.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Plus a stupid shadow bug that wiped out all the translations in
/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat when running the first stage's user/password
step. Sigh. Fixing.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is better now, following these four uploads:

shadow (1:4.0.3-37ubuntu7) breezy; urgency=low

  * Stop including passwd.templates in initial-passwd-udeb.templates; it's
    no longer necessary with passthrough, and it triggers a debconf-copydb
    bug which wipes out all translations in the target configdb.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:55:35 +0100

oem-config (0.9) breezy; urgency=low

  * Quieten output from deluser.
  * Quieten output from debconf-communicate while resetting passwd/user-uid.
  * Try setting LANG to the value of debian-installer/fallbacklocale if the
    value of debian-installer/locale isn't a valid locale (Ubuntu #17366).
  * Set labels in passwd and timezone windows to the translated descriptions
    of the same questions in the installer; sync text of passwd labels with
    the text in passwd.templates (Ubuntu #17366).
  * Re-register passwd/user-fullname and passwd/username templates to
    themselves rather than debian-installer/dummy (although it's a bug
    somewhere in preseeding that they're left this way) so that we get
    useful translated descriptions for them.
  * Set title of timezone window to the translated description of
    tzconfig/title. Unfortunately this is too hard to do for the passwd
    window at present.
  * Exiting oem-config can leave you without a configured user, so try not
    to exit unnecessarily. If we have to, then print an error message with
    instructions and drop the user to a shell, since that's better than a
    login prompt with no users.
  * Reload /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.templates for timezone question;
    for some reason the translations seem to be getting lost from it.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:41:41 +0100

localechooser (0.13ubuntu12) breezy; urgency=low

  * Set labels in oem-config locale window to the translated descriptions of
    the same questions in the installer (Ubuntu #17366).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:45:44 +0100

kbd-chooser (1.18ubuntu8) breezy; urgency=low

  * Set title and label in oem-config keyboard window to the translated
    descriptions of the same questions in the installer (Ubuntu #17366).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:46:52 +0100

There are still some missing translations, notably "Choose a language:" and the
"User configuration" title, and a few other i18n-related bugs. These can - and
will have to - wait until Ubuntu 6.04 now, though, as we're doing candidate
final builds for Ubuntu 5.10 now.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Isn't that fixed yet ?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

No, not really.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed in bzr, I believe (though of course actual translations will need to be added); still needs me to test a bit before upload.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

oem-config (1.20) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Add a --quiet option to oem-config-prepare to suppress its
    acknowledgement message (and thus the dialog requiring user interaction
    if $DISPLAY is set).
  * Add internationalisation (LP: #23537). Adjusted several widget names and
    strings in the KDE frontend to bring it into sync with the GTK frontend
    for this purpose.
  * Start dcopserver when running the KDE frontend (LP: #145226).
  * Add a --debug option to oem-config-firstboot to make debugging a bit
    less painful.
  * Remove use of dh_python, since it's a no-op now. Bump debhelper
    build-dependency to 5.0.37.3ubuntu2 (a.k.a. dh_python from 5.0.38) for
    this.
  * Clean up subprocesses even if oem-config-dm is interrupted.
  * GTK frontend:
    - Go forward when activating rows in language or keyboard treeviews.
  * Make sure the selected locale at least exists (we should really install
    the language pack, but this is a stopgap measure).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup 1.16ubuntu5,
    localechooser 1.38ubuntu2, user-setup 1.14ubuntu3.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:59:41 +0100

[Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)]

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306188