Re: Intent to package: two small network utilities
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Has queso been translated from Spanish (?) to English already? Don't know if
> > that's a problem?
>
> For normal uses, it's not a problem:
>
> ezili:~/Debian/packages/queso> sudo queso www.pasteur.fr
> * Digital Unix
> ezili:~/Debian/packages/queso> sudo queso lpr.pasteur.fr:23
> * Linux 2.0.xx
>
> For the documentation, translation is going on...
$ sudo fromage www.pasteur.fr ?! ;)
> [Policy] Is there any rule about an english translation for Debian
> packages? Could package in another language be a real part of Debian?
The documentation must exist at least in English. Lack of English
documentation is considered by the policy as 'Lack of documentation'.
However, if the documentation is also available in another language it
must also be packaged. (In /usr/doc/$pkgname if it's small enough, in a
separate $pkgname-doc-fr, $pkgname-doc-de, etc... package overwise)
Also, if documentation exists only in an non-English language, it must be
included (it can't hurt), but the package is still considered as
undocumented by the policy.
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