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Bug#901702: Add locale and gettext support to initramfs

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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.130
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n patch

Hello,

when trying to add l10n support to the cryptsetup initramfs script I was
surprised to realize that apparently no initramfs component has l10n
support yet.

Probably that's because most messages from initramfs are more targeted
at developers. Unfortunately, that's not true for the initramfs scripts
of cryptsetup. Here, we need to ask users for input (passphrase) and
therefore the messages we print are targeted at normal users. There's
also an open bugreport that requests support for translated strings[1].

I first thought about adding all the required locale and gettext stuff
to initramfs in the cryptroot hook, but after thinking about it again,
I think it should be done in initramfs itself instead. Other initramfs
components might want to use it as well.

That's why I'd like to add locale and gettext support to initramfs but
make it optional. Without any prompts targeted at endusers, there's no
real need to bloat the initramfs with locales and gettext files. But
e.g. in the cryptsetup package, we would enable it.

I've prepared a patch that optionally adds locale and gettext support to
initramfs (depending on a initramfs.conf variable). You can find the
patch attached to this bugreport or as a merge request on Salsa[2].
Whatever you prefer ;)

Would be awesome if you could consider to merge it. It's a prerequisite
for adding l10n support to the cryptsetup initramfs scripts.

Cheers,
 jonas

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688735
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/merge_requests/4

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Bug#901702: Add locale and gettext support to initramfs Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> - 2018-06-17 03:00 +0200
  Bug#901702: Add locale and gettext support to initramfs Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2018-07-22 22:20 +0200

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