On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:18:10PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, 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'. > > Packages files are produced from the contents of .debs. and nobody will change this. We will only put the translation in a extra file and dpkg, dselect and apt should search in this file for a translation before it show the description to the user. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "...anytime you install something new on the Windows platform, you risk spending the next five or six hours trying to figure out what happened" -- Robert Roblin, Adobe
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