On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 09:29:09AM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > In writing the presentation I am working on, I appears that there is > some inconsistency with regard to languages Debian has been translated > in to. > > 1, https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2019/20190415 > > has > > Localization status > > 76 languages are supported in this release. > Full translation for 38 of them. This is about the localization status of the *debian installer* i.e. the set of packages/software/documentation concerned with the installation of Debian. > and yet this page (which was my original source) > > 2, https://www.debian.org/international/index.en.html > > Suggests only 30. This is the set of Debian pages dedicated to concrete languages. The problem is that your original request "how many languages Debian is available in" is too broad to make sense: you need to qualify it with some context. Is it all the software packaged for Debian? With 50-60K packages (shepherded by ~1K Debian Devalopers), that seems too daunting a task. Is it the software made by Debian, for Debian? (apt, et al)? This isn't even well defined. Is some non-essential but helpful Debian-specific tool in the set? How about tools for "specialists", like debootstrap or schroot? What about essential packages, i.e. those you *have to have* for a working system, but are not Debian, like OS kernel, libc, init system and kernel affine stuff (udev & friends)? What about things like desktop environment, which, being far from essential, are generally considered to be necessary? So it seems you have to parametrize your question and then, you'll find a parametrized answer. The task is not necessarily trivial, though :-) Cheers -- tomás
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