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Bug#492624: debian-policy: Allow internal debconf questions



Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> writes:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>> Julian Andres Klode wrote:

>>> Quoting 3.9.1:

>>> "Packages which use the Debian Configuration management specification
>>> must allow for translation of their messages by using a
>>> gettext-based system such as the one provided by the po-debconf
>>> package."

>>> But internal debconf questions should not be translated, as they are
>>> not displayed to the user.

>> Internal debconf questions are not communicated and thus are not "messages".

> This should be clarified in the policy.

Would changing that sentence to:

    Packages which use the Debian Configuration management specification
    must allow for translation of their user-visible messages by using a
    gettext-based system such as the one provided by the po-debconf
    package.

be sufficient to address this bug for you?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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