Re: Debian Debconf Translation proposal ( again )

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Petter Reinholdtsen writes:

> [Dominique Devriese]
>> PROPOSED DEBIAN SYSTEM
> [...]
>> 2. The translators don't try to get their work included in Debian
>> packages.  Instead they provide one package of their own, that they
>> can occasionally release in sid if they want to.

> We discussed something like this for the new installer, making it
> possible to update/add translations independent of the "real"
> packages.  For this to work, one need to be able to add translations
> to the debconf database.  

Perhaps debconf could be changed to use gettext instead.  I.e. when it
sees a translatable string in a template, it calls gettext on it.
That way, all the translation packages have to do is to put the .(g)mo
files in the right location.

Perhaps I forgot to mention this, but this is also how the KDE
project works.

cheers
domi