Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > So, you want to make possible for a package to contain meta-data about > another package, am I right ?
Wrong, that would not make any sense. > Or are you thinking about a separate file, not in a package, like the > Packages.gz is ? Yes. > But if you put the translation in the control file, you have to add almost > hundred fields, on per locale: Description-fr ; Description-fr_FR ; > Description-fr_CA ; Description-fr_BE just to have the more used french > variants (and no, it would not be acceptable to merge all country variant of > the language in the language. Think about pt_BR and pt_PT). Bogus. If you buy wordperfect does it have 96 different translations in it? Of course not, they only put in a few important ones. > Would we declare one new field in <dpkg>/lib/parse.c:fieldinfo for each one, > choose the most used one, have a new kind of 'variable field', designating > the Description, allowing a parameter designing the language used ? Please let go of the idea that dpkg should keep a list of all descriptions in memory, that is simply not reasonable. In fact forget about dpkg internals completely, they are completely irrelevant to this discussion. > Should we make two files, like status-essential and status-extra, or split > it further ? Moreover, what should be the format of the new file(s) ? Also > rfc822-complient, or something else ? Does it really matter? > For example, for descriptions, > file:///usr/share/doc/gettext-doc/gettext_7.html#SEC36 gives the format of > the binary file used by gettext. It is pretty clear and well documented. We > could use it to store descriptions. Not only translated one, but also > original one. And it would mean you have a format that no standard unix commandline tools can parse or modify, in other words it's not acceptable. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
