Dear Friends, the current version of apt in debian/experimental has support for translated package descriptions and we have a the current translations available for sid on the mirrors (currently not on ftp.debian.org itself because of the mirror split I suspect).
This means that everyone with non-english locales will get translated packages descriptions on the next "apt-get update" run if they install the apt from experimental. Synaptic and aptitude have support for this feature as well, python-apt and others will follow soon. Please help testing the new code and report problems and/or success. It should be enough to install apt, python-apt, synaptic from experimental and if your LANG is set to something other than C it should download the appropriate translation indexes and displays them with apt-cache or synaptic (warning: not everything is translated yet). I think this is a important step forward for a fully localized system and I'm pretty excited about it. The ddtp system was developed by Michael Bramer, the code in apt is based on the work of Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who implemented a patch against apt for 0.5.5.1. The translated package descriptions where imported by Anthony Towns for sid. Thanks to all of you :) And to the busy translators who work on making that happen! More information: * the first announcement I was able to find: http://lwn.net/2002/0103/a/deb-ddtp.php3 * original announcement about apt-i18n: http://lwn.net/Articles/34753/ The ddtp project is hosted at http://ddtp.debian.net/. You can view the status of the various package descriptions via the webpage. If you want to help translating, please to the following: 1. send a Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject 'GET 3 cs' (use cs da de eo es fi fr hu it ja nl pl pt_BR pt_PT ru sk sv_SE uk as langcode) 2. you get a mail from the ddtp server with three untranslated descriptions. 3. Translate the descriptions 4. send this as mail attachments back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Michael -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
