On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:56:14AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> Description: TTY client for LysKOM [Swedish]
> Med lyskom kan du koppla upp dig till ditt favorit-LysKOM. Ett
> LysKOM är ett datoriserat konferenssystem där du kan delta i
> diskussioner, ställa frågor, och komma i kontakt med intressanta
> människor.
>
> huh? the Description field should be in english, like all other
> packages.
you are right.
> if you want your native language in the Packages file (an admirable
> goal), then the thing to do is NOT to use random languages in the
> standard Packages file, it is to work on adding support for Packages.en,
> Packages.se, Packages.de, Packages.XX to dpkg, dselect, apt, and other
> tools.
we must work on this.
IMHO there are translation with -es and -jp. We are working on -de.
> (i believe there is a project in progress to do that, but don't recall
> the details - try searching the debian-devel archives)
I don't know a progress to support translated Package-file in dpkg,
apt etc. Have someone a URL?
Can we support something like this:
debian/dists/woody/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
/main/binary-i386/Packages
/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
/sid/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
/main/binary-i386/Packages
/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
debian/dists/de/woody/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
/main/binary-i386/Packages
/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
/sid/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
/main/binary-i386/Packages
/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
debian/dists/jp/woody/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
/main/binary-i386/Packages
/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
/sid/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
/main/binary-i386/Packages
/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
With this, a root can add a line to this apt/source.list, like:
deb http://http.de.debian.org/ de/potato main contrib non-free
and he has german Package descriptions...
(I know that the proposal is a hack. But what is a problem with this
hack?)
Comments?
Gruss
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