Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:48:06PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: > Maybe you missed my mail in which I stated that now that someone had > bothered to tell me this was a problem, I could fix in it about oh, 10 > minutes. > > The only reason I have not yet is that debconf is currently frozen, > along w

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Quinson wrote: > Ouch ! As translator, I can promise you that if Joey Hess had removed all my > translation just because he added 'gnome' to the list of choices, he would > had to search out another french translator ! Maybe I'd better start looking, because: > PS: this perticular problem

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Also, I like that we use the gettext mechanism because at least we > have no translated description when it has been updated instead of > an outdated description. Better have a correct english description > than a wrong translated one. This problem is common with debconf >

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:43:09PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:31:40AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the > > > disadvantage that new D

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:31:40AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the > > disadvantage that new Descriptions, i.e. _the_ones_you_are_most_likely > > _to_look_at_, will *n

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait: > > And that's a mirror where we I only have i386. So multiply by 10 arch, > > then by 50 languages, and you get 10Gb of Packages file. We could reduce > > that if we remove uncompressed Packages but still ... > > > > And a good p

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:28:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:12:52AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > Of 8 friends of mine that are using debian, I know that: > > > 2 would want fallback hungarian-

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:12:52AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > Of 8 friends of mine that are using debian, I know that: > > 2 would want fallback hungarian->slovak->czech > > 1 would want fallback lithuanian->slovak->czech->rus

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > Just a small nitpicks... > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Hi Raphael, > > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > > With language-specific Packages fil

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [snip] > > using my "fr" environnment I could'n reconfigure debconf to use the > > Gnome frontend, it wasn't listed in the proposed choices because t

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Le Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait: > > > With language-specific Packages files, there is no size issue. > > And that's a mirror wh