Re: Link to Japanese Debian?
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> [ thread was originally on debian-www ]
>
> > From: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
> > Subject: Re: Link to Japanese Debian?
> > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:03:12 -0700
> >
> > > > > I couldn't find a link on our website to the Japanese Debian project:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.debian.linux.or.jp/
> > > > >
> > > > > Or did I just miss it?
> > >
> > > Tim Sailer wrote:
> > > > www.jp.debin.org
> > >
> > > No. That's just a mirror site of the main Debian pages. The
> > > site I listed is the project for the Japanese-specific packages.
> >
> > There is no link to http://www.debian.linux.or.jp/
> > from http://www.debian.org/.
> > # www.debian.linux.or.jp will move to www.debian.or.jp in the near future.
> >
> > > I was quite impressed by what they've done.
> > Thanks ;-)
> >
> > Incidentally, we have something to ask.
> > We've developed over 100 packages (Japanesized versions), so
> > we'd like to contribute these to the official Debian distribution.
> > (Unfortunately, almost all of these packages is now developed
> > for bo, not for hamm. we are going to hamm.)
> > We don't know what is the best way to do it.
> > Is it possible to upload these packages by proxy,
> > or should developers upload directly to master?
> > Which mailing-list is the best to ask these question?
>
> I'll cc: this to debian-devel, since most of the developers
> are there - and it's a public list.
>
> I'm not sure what the official Debian policy on Internationalization
> is - other than the fact that there are several efforts underway.
>
> Some questions I have:
>
> - are we going to have one main distribution, with supplemental
> distributions for each language? Or is it desirable to put
> everything into one gigantic multi-lingual distribution.
I personally don't think a giga dist. is a good thing. But we do need to
do something about differen't programs. I guess we can asume english will
be the base language cause it's the most common, especially in regard to
computers. However, it probably be good to have mini-internation dists
for each seperate country. such that CD companies in japan can sell A
debian CD and it will contain all the japanese stuff.
>
> - how do we deal with users (and developers) who do not speak
> English? I noticed that Debian-JP already has a separate
> bug system. This impacts the work Klee Dienes is doing on
> maintainer verification and dpkg enhancements too.
Maybe the Debian-JP should forward the bug reports up to the main site in
English? Don't know if this is always feasable or fair to them?
>
> - I noticed that the Debian-JP distribution has i18n'd versions
> of dpkg and other utilities. How can we minimize the work
> involved in keeping the translations and the software
> up-to-date and in-sync? I noticed that the "main" version
> of the dpkg package has translations for English and French
> in it -- but the Japanese i18n stuff isn't there.
This IMO should be their responsibility to get integrated with dpkg. Does
Klee even know their version exists?
Just my 2 yen, :)
Shaya
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