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
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