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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
