Hello (I cc to joeyh) On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:01:03PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:31:08AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > My dream: > > The package maintainer make only 'his' english templates file and > > upload the package to the archive. > > The DDTP will catch all this new stuff, translate it all in 1-2 weeks > > automagical into all languages. > > If the package maintainer make a new build, some build scripts > > download the translations from the DDTP and include this to this > > package (the old system) or the DDTP make a XXX-i10n-XX package itself > > and upload this with all the translation. > > Here is an alternative. I am not telling that l10n must be done this > way, but IMO it is worth a try. > > Imagine that the DDTP builds debconf template databases instead of templates > files (i.e. /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat) for each single language > (in order to keep each file small), say templates.dat-xx where xx is > language code. These templates.dat-xx contain the templates in English > and in the xx language for all packages which have debconf templates > localized in this language. > Now on your machine retrieve the desired languages and put them at a > specific location: > mkdir -p /var/cache/debconf-l10n/de/ > mkdir -p /var/cache/debconf-l10n/fr/ > cp templates.dat-de /var/cache/debconf-l10n/de/templates.dat > cp templates.dat-fr /var/cache/debconf-l10n/fr/templates.dat > and modify /etc/debconf.conf to load those localized databases before > templatedb; replace > Name: templatedb > Driver: File > Mode: 644 > Filename: /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat > by > Name: templatedb-debconf > Driver: File > Mode: 644 > Filename: /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat > > Name: templatedb-de > Driver: File > Mode: 644 > Filename: /var/cache/debconf-l10n/de/templates.dat > Readonly: true > > Name: templatedb-fr > Driver: File > Mode: 644 > Filename: /var/cache/debconf-l10n/fr/templates.dat > Readonly: true > > Name: templatedb > Driver: Stack > Stack: templatedb-fr, templatedb-de, templatedb-debconf > > and that's it, you have access to all fr and de translations. Have you try it? Will it work? Maybe joeyh can give some comments... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Since software cannot be foolproof, we should get rid of the the fools.
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