Package: debhelper
Version: 7.0.16
Severity: wishlist

This is a long-term goal proposal.

The debian-i18n team is currently progressively setting up a central place
where debconf translations could be gathered and easily accessible to
translators.

That location is currently svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-l10n/data/unstable
Packages there are spread in "main|contrib|non-free", then the package's
initial (or libX for lib* packages).

Example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/pootle/debconf$ ls -l main/a/atlas/*po
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle pootle  4996 2008-07-20 15:51 main/a/atlas/af.po
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle pootle  4996 2008-07-20 15:51 main/a/atlas/am.po
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle pootle  4996 2008-07-20 15:51 main/a/atlas/ar.po
.../...

(please note that *currently* there are files for each language even when
these files have 0 strings translated. This is something that should|will
change in the future)

The current bug report is suggesting to create a dh_* utility for grabbing
these translations, if the build is done "online". Of course, that utility
would do nothing otherwise. This could be controlled by an ONLINE variable
or so.

My first proposal is to include this in debhelper scripts....

It could also be integrated in po-debconf so that po2debconf does such job.
Please feel free to comment and reassign if you feel like this should not be
done in debhelper scripts.

This proposal probably needs more thinking. That bug report is mostly aimed
at tracking that issue.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to fr_FR.UTF8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.20              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.25-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text           1.3.2a-4             advanced HTML to text converter
ii  man-db              2.5.2-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl                5.10.0-11.1          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf          1.0.15               manage translated Debconf template

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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