Re: Is valid for Debian a source code not in English? (was Help to know if a package is valid)
Em sex., 19 de ago. de 2022 às 16:38, Lucas Castro
<lucas@gnuabordo.com.br> escreveu:
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> Em 16/08/2022 22:50, braulio escreveu:
> > On 22/08/05 15:36, braulio wrote:
> >> Good afternoon.
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> >> I need help with a situation. I packaged a program under the GPL-3+ license where Upstream wrote all the texts in its native language Pt-Br, and for the packaging, I did all the translation to English, creating a directory 'debian/locale/en' with your required files for the translation as the 'manual', 'README', example and strings of the --help command. I would like to know if my package is valid, since I didn't find any kind of content in Debian Policy.
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> I guess any changes to upstream must be implements along with patch and
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> anything under debian/ must be related to debian package only.
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> So shouldn't debian/locale/ be related locate of debian package itself?
No. Similarly, you could provide a manpage or sources[1] via debian/.
IMO, it is not a good practice to generate new files in upstream place
via patches.
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#missing-sources-debian-missing-sources
Eriberto
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