[Bug 1864680] Re: Revival of language packs for Kurdish (Sorani)

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:36:36AM -0000, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> That's what I was afraid of. ;) And yes, Central Kurdish is not present
> there.

> The code which needs to be changed to add a language there is ... not so
> easy to understand. One of Ubuntu's most experienced developers has
> struggled for a while with adding another language (Tajik - bug
> #1171844). I'm thinking that we'd better await the final resolution of
> that bug. Then they will have learned which steps are needed to add yet
> another language.

That menu is isolinux-specific and therefore only shows up on systems
booting with legacy BIOS, not with UEFI.  The plan is to remove isolinux
altogether this cycle in favor of using GRUB for both BIOS and UEFI, so
there will be no language menu in the bootloader and this will be a
non-issue.

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Title:
  Revival of language packs for Kurdish (Sorani)

Status in langpack-o-matic:
  Fix Released
Status in localechooser package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Language packs for Kurdish (Sorani) were present in Ubuntu 14.04 as a
  result of bug #1388808. They were dropped later due to the
  introduction of a threshold, i.e. language packs are normally created
  only for languages where >5% of the translatable strings are
  translated.

  The Kurdish (Sorani) translators team are currently working actively
  with improving the translation coverage. At the moment it's
  approximately 3%.

  Assuming that the team will soon reach 5% coverage, this is a request
  for an exception from applying the 5% threshold for Kurdish (Sorani)
  in Ubuntu 20.04.

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