Re: RFD: translated description with dpkg
Hi debian-devel!
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Personally, I wonder if the /best/ solution would be similar to what we have
> > > in the archive now for overrides file: create a central repository with all
> > > of the translations, used by the archive, so that there are no delays in
> > > making the translations available; but submit the translations to the
> > > maintainer, so that they can also be included in the .deb.
> >
> > That breaks if you sign packages since it will either break the signature
> > or add unsigned content.
>
> How so? The translations are not added to the .deb, they're used to generate
> another packages.gz files AFAIK...
Never mind, I had not noticed that "feed into the .deb" part. That would NOT
be a good idea, IMHO. Send the new translation to the BTS, and if we feel
the need, we do a NMU party to update them by force when near releases.
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Henrique Holschuh
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