[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#1144167: Bug#1144167: caja-nextcloud: Feature Request

[Hefee]

Control: reassign -1 nextcloud-desktop 33.0.7-1
Hey,

> I don't program so I don't know how much effort it would be to have the
> install detect the primary language on the computer and ask if you want
> other languages installed or not.

There is no general support in Debian for limit the language files to a set of 
languages. As a normal user is not able to install anything, the root user 
needs to decide this. And there are properly a lot edge cases on a multi-user 
setup to think about...

The automatic installation of the language files give users to have a great 
first experience as the software presents itself with the selected language. As 
for most users English is not their mother tongue, so most users profit from 
those language files and file size is not that big issue nowadays. 

>From the nextcloud-desktop package side, I can at least improve it for English 
users by lowering the depends on nextcloud-desktop-l10n package to recommends. 
Than by default installations would still install the l10n package, but users 
can tell apt to not install the l10n package to have English interface only.

Regards,

hefee

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On Dienstag, 11. August 2026 23:12 Tim McConnell wrote:
> Package: caja-nextcloud
> Version: 33.0.7-1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tmcconnell168 at gmail.com
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>  What led up to the situation? Installed software
> 
>  What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)? unable to block the l10 version
> 
>  What was the outcome of this action? The l10 packages were installed
> 
>  What outcome did you expect instead? To be able to not have the languages
> I'll never use installed on my system.
> I can only read US English the additional languages are useless to me and
> just add  to the size of an upgrade.
> 
> It would be the preferred action to only install the languages I use.
> 
> I don't program so I don't know how much effort it would be to have the
> install detect the primary language on the computer and ask if you want
> other languages installed or not.
> Thank you for yur time spent reading this.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: forky/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 7.1.7+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages caja-nextcloud depends on:
> ii  caja                      1.26.4-3
> ii  nextcloud-desktop         33.0.7-1
> ii  nextcloud-desktop-common  33.0.7-1
> ii  python3-caja              1.26.0-2+b1
> ii  python3-gi                3.56.3-2
> 
> caja-nextcloud recommends no packages.
> 
> caja-nextcloud suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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