On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:04:22 +0100 Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote: > 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 That's no coincidence. :-) What I do need is the gconv and tzdata handling. I hope to extend the principle of tdebs beyond the initial idea of language packs. > 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... add me to the list... Is this something best done on the debian-i18n list or continue here? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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