gdm templates, common templates (was: Re: Update to Debian Installer translators documentation)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Konstantinos Margaritis (markos@debian.gr):

> > The culprit template has been removed very recently after a bug
> > report I made, as this was so-called debconf abuse.
> 
> It also seems that gdm is not available for translation as well, 
> probably a similar case?

I don't exactly understand your point there....you mean gdm
templates?


I guess they're available just like other po-debconf templates from:

http://people.debian.org/~barbier/intl/l10n/po-debconf/

By the way, these *dm templates are "common" templates, IIRC. 

Such common templates are currently not handled very efficiently as
they are in all packages which uses them instead of being separate so
that they're translated only once.

Among the dozens ideas I have without time for making them real, a
"debconf-common-templates" package exists:

-nothing in it except debconf templates
-includes all "common" templates used by several packages such as
"Database serveur host", "Database name", "Database user"....used by
gazillions of *sql-based packages


Packages which want to use these templates would then only need to
"register" them with debconf

This would save a lot of translation time, for sure....and this would
also help in getting consistency among packages.

I deeply hope I will have something ready before debconf so that I may
include somehting about this in my talk there.