Re: locale files

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:57:51AM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:

>  > If the message files are identical, another solution would be to create a
>  > third package with the message files which you depend on in the library
>  > packages. (The former should of course conflict with older versions
>  > of the latter.)
> 
> I suppose if the messages packages was large that might be preferable to ship
> it separately rather than in each libfoo package

This would only be feasible if the message catalog never changed.
Presumably, it corresponds to translated strings in the library, which might
not be identical in different versions of the library.

> , but for my case, it sounds better to include the files in the libfoo
> package and version them.  With a separate messages package, you end up
> with the same issues as libraries, as far as versioning, coexistence, etc.

I agree.

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 - mdz