Quoting Neil Williams (codehelp@debian.org): > I am therefore seeking a second layer of repository structure that > removes all /usr/share/locale/ data from all packages in Debian, > creates language-specific packages for each individual .mo file from > each individual package and allies those to individual packages for the > gconv files from glibc and the zoneinfo files from tzdata into a system > that can provide two implementations: > a) Current Debian of install everything anyway > b) Necessary Emdebian route of installing ONLY the translations that > match the locale with appropriate gconv support and zoneinfo support > with a debconf frontend to add extra locales and necessary support so > that any user can specify that only en_GB, fr and sv should be > supported etc. These ideas very much look like those summarized in http://wiki.debian.org/i18n/TranslationDebs As of now, nothing really came out from these thoughts but I think that It could be time to revive all this. Although much people put nice "i18n guru" stickers on my tee-shirt, I however lack enough time|knowledge to deeply work on this except by following what's happening but I think that people who were more deeply involved in this (such as Eddy Petrisor, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino) could be interested...
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