On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:50:00PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Delay is not the only problem. > I filed many bugreports to make DD realize that they must put translated > templates into separate files. Some DD did not like this idea because > (choose your option) > a) merging templates at build time unnecessarily consumes autobuilders > CPU time > b) adding a build-dependency against debconf-utils make their packages > "unpure" Who are these maintainers, so we can subject them to public derision? > Since debconf 1.2.0, encoding of localized fields can be specified within > field name. This allows encoding conversion when user's charset is > different, which will become more and more common because of UTF-8 support. > Po-debconf must be used instead of debconf-utils in order to generate > translated templates with such fields. but according to > http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/ > very few packages (around 30, plus debian-installer packages) made this > transition. Perhaps some maintainers are wary of switching because of #171377? How often does that po-debconf page get updated? I know of at least one package now using po-debconf that's not listed. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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