Unnecessary languages listed but not installed after install

[Sergio Zanchetta]

Testing Precise ISO build 20120319.

Steps:
1) Boot it from a usb/cd live and click on Try Ubuntu with English language.
2) Click on Install icon on the desktop, connected or not to the net (it's the same)
3) After reboot, the language selector shows as screenshot-19 and screenshot-20 (regional format)

English variants and Chinese are grey in the list, the only installed language (checked in install/remove languages...) is English.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Tested selecting Italian on Try Ubuntu and then start installing.

See screenshot-21 taken after rebooting.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

With an italian installation, If I try to deselect English, it removes the related packages finishing in the state shown in screenshot-22 and screenshot-23, chinese is not grey and it's not installed.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

I mean, obviously it's not installed ;-)

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Another step.
Starting from situation in comment #5, after rebooting the incomplete language windows appear and then opening Language Support app it ask me to install poppler-data package.

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

I think what you see with English is intentional: all the locales are installed by the English language pack, but it would make not much sense to enable them all at the same time, so they are under the default English entry.

What you see with Chinese is IMHO the same as bug #863378.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I have proposed a change to /usr/share/locales/remove-language-pack to fix bug 863378, and like Gabor I have a feeling that it might take care of this bug as well.

@Colin, are you able to tell?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Even if the attached accountsservice patch does not fix the root cause of this bug, it prevents e.g. a Chinese item from being displayed in the language list if no Chinese langpack is installed. It does not affect the list of locales for setting regional formats, though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.29-1ubuntu5

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accountsservice (0.6.29-1ubuntu5) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/0009-language-tools.patch:
    Prevent language-options from listing items that don't correspond
    with an installed langpack, even if there is a matching locale
    (LP: #960314).
 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:10:00 +0100

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.