Re: Common set of debconf templates
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:59:01PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:36:40AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > SHARED TEMPLATES
> > > It's actually possible to have a template and a question that
> > > are shared among a set of packages. All the packages have to
> > > provide an identical copy of the template in their templates
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> > > files. This can be useful if a bunch of packages need to ask
> > > the same question, and you only want to bother the user with it
> > > once. Shared templates are generally put in the shared/
> > > pseudo-directory in the debconf tem- plate namespace.
> >
> > What happens when the template changes in the template package but is
> > out of sync in the other packages?
> >
>
> IIRC, last installed package wins and puts its version of the template into
> the debconf database, even if it is not the most up-to-date. If there is a
> package that has no translations at all for the shared question and is
> installed after packages having plenty of translations, there will be no
> translations at all for that shared question in the debconf database.
What about a rule that says:
- If the package name is the same as the directory in the debconf database
then use that package's templates take priority.
- Else, as before.
The package includes the template-package's templates at build
(debhelper style as suggested before).
Then up to date translations can be ensured by installing a
debconf-translation-templates meta package or templates package before
the package.
(Pre-depends / Recommends / Installer business??)
--
Brian Sutherland
Reply to: