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how to handle i18n Description field in debian/control file?



[please add me in Cc:, as I'm not list subscriber]
[note: I'm not very fluent in English...]

Hello all,
I wonder what is the way to internationalize "Description: " field
in control files (got a warning about both missing Description field
and unknown _Description field while build a package when I use
the underscore and add it to po-debconf handling).

I found
http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt #7
and
http://lists.debian.or.jp/debian-devel/200009/msg00059.html

Also, I found some packages pages internationalized, as:
http://packages.debian.org/etch/sylpheed-claws

And, obviously :), a rgrep on French portions of the description
in expanded source of /sylpheed-claws-1.0.5 didn't succeed.

I also read
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.announce/2006-06/msg00003.html
about apt 0.6 i18n support for Descriptions.



LANG=C man deb-control gives nothing about i18n (updated 2006-02-28)

apt-get --version => apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 (etch)

Can someone point me out the way or Internet resource to do it
in my test packages?

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Harding


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