Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
Peter Maydell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages, > >> as well as English ones. > > > >This is one of the goals of Debian. > >It is surely t

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-15 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:59:13AM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > >If you don't reassign this bug to dpkg or apt, I will close it in two > >days (as later I will be busy). > > > Oi! I'm an end user (OK, so I browse debian-devel :->). I'm not supposed > to have to know

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-15 Thread Raul Miller
Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're increasingly of the opinion recently that any postinst questions are > to be avoided. But we still need the functionality. The proper thing to do is provide an abstraction layer: both implementation and access policy, which allows us to change the un

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Peter Maydell wrote: > My point wasn't that installing man pages for multiple languages was > wrong, just that installing them without asking was wrong. We're increasingly of the opinion recently that any postinst questions are to be avoided. In any event, others are correct

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-15 Thread Peter Maydell
Fabrizio Polacco wrote: >On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: >> man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages, >> as well as English ones. > >This is one of the goals of Debian. >It is surely the main reason for *my* partacipation to the project. >W

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-15 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > This is one of the goals of Debian. > It is surely the main reason for *my* partacipation to the project. > When I find a package wich doesn't install all the translations > available in its sources, I raise a bug asking to do so. And you are not alone there! > > Then th

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-15 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
[This (harsh) reply is CCed to debian-devel, as I think it's the place to discuss about the issue.] On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: > Package: man-db > Version: 2.3.10-65 > > man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages, > as well as English