Re: debconf template translation
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:08:01PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:10:56AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > If it is the exception then it should be a lot easier to deal with -
> > once most packages do the right thing it should become a lot easier to
> > convince people to DTRT.
> No, convincing people they are wrong takes much more time than expected ;)
"But all the cool kids are doing it!"
[Poor takeup of po-debconf]
> > How much effort has there been to provide updated translations using
> > these fields to maintainers and otherwise encourage them to use this
> > feature? As far as I can remember I've not had any translations
> > provided for any of my packages otherwise heard that this feature is
> > something I should be using since before Debconf 1.2.0 was released.
> > Presumably I'm not alone in this - it's not that I'm actively avoiding
> > doing it, it's just that I had no idea that I should be doing it.
> Hmmm, I do not understand this paragraph, sorry.
What I was trying to say was that po-debconf seems to have been fairly
weakly publicised and that that is as likely an explanation for the poor
takeup as anything else.
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