Re: RFD: translated description with dpkg
Steve Greenland wrote:
> A standalone .deb w/o a Package file doesn't integrate into apt or
> dselect, so there's no where to show the descriptions. The only reason
> one would have an interest in such a .deb is that one already has a
> pretty good idea of what it is, presumably from an accompaning README,
> or the webpage with a link, or somesuch. I doubt very many people go
> around browsing random .debs with 'dpkg-deb -I'.
Speak for yourself. I do it all the time. I also regularly mail people
.deb's, or put them up breifly for ftp without a Packages file, or
distribute and receive them in a myriad of other ways that don't involve
apt.
> I, as a developer, am responsible for what is in my packages. How can I
> be responsible for things I can't read? I mean, I suppose I could work
> my way through one of the Western Europeans. But Polish? Or Korean? Hah!
So you don't feel yourself competant to maintain any packages that have
gettextized messages translated to other languages either?
Or if you do, how is that any different than maintaining translated
descriptions?
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see shy jo
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