Re: RFD: translated description with dpkg
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Michael Bramer wrote:
> If the translated descriptions are store in
> /usr/share/locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg-desc.mo and you have patch all
> outputs in dpkg and dpkg.
This isn't a very pretty solution.
The serious drawback that you missed is that the dpkg-desc.mo file would
have to include translations for every description ever published by the
Debian project, for at least 3 releases. Otherwise installing a new
dpk-desc.mo could make descriptions for packages already installed go
away. These files will be huge too, likely larger than the package files.
Jason
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