Re: ITP: gettext-base
> > > > No objections from me. Sounds fine. As a harder project (of whose
> > > > worth I am uncertain): figure out how much more space could be saved
> > > > by splitting the catalogs as well.
> > > If the current scheme is well enough for you, please don't think of
> > > splitting the catalogs. It will create additional problems on the
> > > translators's side.
> > Why? Will these packages be sharing too many messages?
> I don't know, but regardless of that, the sole fact of having to deal
> with two message catalogs instead of one is something that would
> generate innecesary additional work.
>
> Anyway, the just uploaded gettext-base.deb is now 70158 bytes long. If we
> are short of space in the base system, there are many more base packages
> to consider which are significantly bigger than this.
I still think that this package should be split upstream and the gettext
utility included with other libc support utilities. What do you think?
Reply to: