Michael Bramer wrote: > We need a way to get the translations to the debian user, without any > work of the package maintainers. They only delay the whole process. It would help if you would provide an easy (automatable) way to download the translations for a package in form of a po-debconf .po file. As it is it takes far too much manipulation to get the data that is there into a usable form. > On debian-i18n@ we talk about this and maybe we have found one way. > > The DDTP make some test debconf dat files with translations, you can > download this files from a URL like: > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/template_unstable/debconf-de.dat.new > (replace 'de' with 'da', 'fr', ... for a other language) > > If you now change your debconf config like this: > |Name: templatedb_debconf > |Driver: File > |Mode: 644 > |Filename: /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat > | > |Name: templatedb_de > |Driver: File > |Mode: 644 > |Filename: /var/cache/debconf/debconf-de.dat.new > |Readonly: true > |Required: false > | > |Name: templatedb > |Driver: Stack > |Stack: templatedb_debconf, templatedb_de > you see all this translations and you can use it! > > I test it myself, it work! (The dat files still produce some warnings, > but I will fix this.) > > Maybe someone have some comments about this?! > > If nobody have objections, I will produce some debonf-l10n-LANG.deb packages > with all debconf translations from the DDTP and a working debconf.conf > example... I guess you're welcome to do this but it is fundamentally a hack. -- see shy jo
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