Re: idea: generalized soft dependencies
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 03:53:06PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> >> > Soft-Depends: debdelta {10%,text:"to enable automatic delta downloading"}
> >>
> >> While this solves the why, we have a new problem: Translations
> >> And these texts are quickly written in a way a user can't use:
> >> What the hell is a "delta"? -> debian-l10n-english to the rescue!?
> > [...]
> >
> > You speak about problems of a specific example attribute. We might use
> > text: attribute, we might not use is. Unless your point is say that
> > (all) attributes don't help (and therefore the proposal doesn't make the
> > situation better), this is not what proposal is about.
>
> Yes, I speak about this specific type of attributes, namely such which have
> free text in them. If I want a free-form documentation of why it could be
> useful to install this or that we have documentation for that, starting with
> the long description. Attributes should be limited to something which can be
> evaluated by a package manager automatically to help the user, not another
> blob of text nobody is going to read (and understand).
Couldn't the package manager display the commends for a particular
Recommends or Suggests (provided comments are allowed for those fields,
if not we should maybe allow them and also propagate them into the
binary package metadata). Those comments could then be translated as
well.
Michael
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