Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> What would this tarball contain? Just the translations? > > > > Just the POT file and the then-current translations. Try yourself: > > $ make gnulib-l10n-release > > That seems to require gettext 0.23, so I didn't get a final tarball to > look at.
With a 1-liner local change to gnulib-l10n/configure.ac (line 27) you should be able to build the same thing with an older gettext release. > > Note that Debian already has a number of pure localization packages [1]: > ... > > It is really not a new concept. > > Yes but aren't all of those built from release tarballs with complete > source code from the project, rather than a custom tarball for l10n > purposes? No. The packages cinnamon-l10n menu-l10n psi-l10n qt6-translations-l10n are each built from a custom tarball for l10n purposes. See https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/cinnamon-l10n https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/menu-l10n https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/psi-l10n https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/qt6-translations-l10n So, whatever problems you see for gnulib-l10n must already have been handled / solved for the four packages above. Bruno
