Re: What about gettext-udeb?

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On  2.XII.2003 at 20:32 Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> It will probably make the difference between d-i needing N and N+1 MB of
> memory to install, that's all.

I see.

> Another possible altrnative is to (ab)use the cdebconf database as a
> way to get strings translated. It works for main-menu..

I have to look how this can be done.

> Also, d-i already has two udebs using libparted, and they seem to manage
> ok without gettext somehow. Actually, I think partconf has a few
> untranslatable strings like "IDE" and "part." though.

Sometimes libparted issues longer messages.  For example if the user
tries to copy the contents of some ext2 partition into a smaller or if
the user tries to format some too large partition using fat16.

Anton Zinoviev