Re: Bug#181009: ITP: koffice-i18n -- i18n files for koffice
Le Samedi 15 Février 2003 14:04, Ben Burton a écrit :
> If koffice-i18n is packaged as lots of little language-specific
> packages, it means we have lots more little packages in debian that add
> to the already confusing number of packages for users to choose from and
> for slow hardware to deal with. It's not like just adding another two
> or three packages, I believe it's more like adding another 30.
Is this really a problem ?
For extragear, where each app has its own release cycle, upstreams asks
packagers to include i18n stuff with the application. OK, it's what we are
doing.
But what is the difference between any extragear app and koffice ?
The only one that I can see is the size : koffice is much bigger, so including
the whole i18n stuff in one package would make a too big package (as Ben
said).
Now, imagine that an extragear app become quite big, with big i18n stuff : we
will have the same problem that with koffice now.
If we now put koffice i18n stuff in the kde i18n-foo packages (which is quite
a hack, since we merge several branches), what will we do for this extragear
app ? Will we put its i18n stuff in the kde i18n packages too ?
This would be quite hard for i18n maintainers : take kde from KDE_x_y_BRANCH,
koffice from KOFFICE_x_y_BRANCH, and some extragear apps (but not the whole
module) from HEAD ?
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