gsd defaults to wrong keymap for Sinhala (Sri Lanka) locale

As Colin Watson pointed out on the ubuntu-devel list [1] there is more into it. Several of the languages in the g-s-d patch — including Sinhala — are not present in pkg_depends, which they should be. So I have added those languages, except for mai_IN and sd_IN which are not selectable in ubiquity, to pkg_depends.

as_IN and or_IN are currently not selectable in the installer, but should be since language packs exist, so I added those to the languagelist in localechooser.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-September/041621.html

I followed up by documenting our 'findings' through this commit:

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-settings-daemon/-/commit/5e5e9d20

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.215

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language-selector (0.215) impish; urgency=medium

  * data/pkg_depends:
    - Add several languages for which ibus-m17n is useful and which
      are included in keyboard-Use-ibus-sources-from-locale.patch in
      gnome-settings-daemon (LP: #1943768).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:11:30 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package localechooser - 2.89ubuntu3

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localechooser (2.89ubuntu3) impish; urgency=medium

  * Add Assamese (as) and Odia (or) to languagelist
    - We provide language packs for both, and hence they should be
      selectable in the installer (LP: #1943768).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:03:11 +0200

On 2021-09-17 05:39, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> This bug was fixed in the package localechooser - 2.89ubuntu3
>
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> localechooser (2.89ubuntu3) impish; urgency=medium
>
> * Add Assamese (as) and Odia (or) to languagelist
> - We provide language packs for both, and hence they should be
> selectable in the installer (LP: #1943768).

This change will take effect only after next build of ubiquity.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon - 40.0.1-1ubuntu3

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gnome-settings-daemon (40.0.1-1ubuntu3) impish; urgency=medium

  * d/p/ubuntu/keyboard-Use-ibus-sources-from-locale.patch: add si_LK to the
    list of locales for which we prefer m17n. LP: #1943768.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:58:15 -0700

@Gunnar, is a rebuild going to be enough or do we need to update as described in https://git.launchpad.net/ubiquity/tree/d-i/source/README ?

AFAIK a ubiquity rebuild is sufficient to complete the localechooser change. The localechooser languagelist is used by ubiquity to create the lists which are actually used by the installer.

On 2021-09-21 11:38, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> AFAIK a ubiquity rebuild is sufficient to complete the localechooser
> change. The localechooser languagelist is used by ubiquity to create
> the lists which are actually used by the installer.

It seems not to be that easy any longer:

https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2021/09/21/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t09:33

Will investigate.

Tested the new Sinhala behavior successfully:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-September/041624.html

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 22.04.12

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ubiquity (22.04.12) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * Update the localechooser subtree from 2.89ubuntu3
    (lp: #1943768, #1966530)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: localechooser
    2.89ubuntu3.

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Switch kernel flavours [oem|hwe]-20.04 to [oem|hwe]-22.04.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:12:50 +0100