On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:29:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > When building with po-debconf, a format 1 (no encoding specifications, > woody-compatible) debian/templates file is generated in the clean target > and shipped in the source package, but a format 2 (UTF8-encoded, > woody-incompatible) debian/templates file is generated in binary-arch > for the binary package only. [...]
One minor correction, the difference between formats 1 and 2 is that with the latter encoding is part of field name. IIRC original plan for sarge was to use format 2 with legacy encodings (i.e. the same encoding as with format 1), and let translators choose their preferred encoding after sarge. Denis
