[Debconf-devel] [Fwd: Handling values with db_get in case of translation]

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

I haven't received any response on debian-mentors...

Maybe I'll get more luck here ?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
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De: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
À: debian-mentors at lists.debian.org
Sujet: Handling values with db_get in case of translation
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:49:35 +0100

Hi.

I'm wondering how would one write postinst script tests, in the case of
"select" debconf configuration values, which are translated in the
templates.

Let's say that a package's template contains something like :

 Template: sympa/db_authtype
 Type: select
 Choices: Ident-based, Password
 ...
 Choices-fr.UTF-8: Basée sur ident, Mot de passe

If issueing 'db_get sympa/db_authtype', and wanting to test the results, I would expect some code like the following to be correct :

 db_get sympa/db_authtype
   if [ "$RET" = "Ident-based" ]; then
   ...

However, it seems that the db_get results depend on the locale, and return "Basée sur ident" instead of "Ident-based" when with french locale...

How can one write scripts, which will not depend on translation of the templates ?

Is this a bug in debconf ?

Btw, that's a real case example in the sympa package, and testing distro (and see bug #466530).

Thanks for your comments.

Best regards,
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