On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:21:56PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > >The fdisk-udeb for debian-installer requires cut-down versions > > >of the .mo files for localisation. > > >The following patch produces these. > > .../... > > > I wrote up a patch to add the missing l10n to cfdisk. > > Unfortunately its bloats the udeb a bit: > > > > total 4072 > > 68 bsdutils_2.12-4_i386.deb > > 468 fdisk-udeb_2.12-4_i386.udeb > > 136 mount_2.12-4_i386.deb > > 4 util-linux-2.12 > > 4 util-linux-2.12.new > > 984 util-linux-locales_2.12-4_all.deb > > 148 util-linux_2.12-4.diff.gz > > 4 util-linux_2.12-4.dsc > > 60 util-linux_2.12-4_i386.build > > 4 util-linux_2.12-4_i386.changes > > 372 util-linux_2.12-4_i386.deb > > 1820 util-linux_2.12.orig.tar.gz > > > > Around 70K per language added to the udeb. > > Is this acceptable, or what else should be done? > > There was no reaction to this. > > Having the cfdisk part translated is IMHO really important. Without > this, we will end up with a full translated installer in a lot of > languages....except for the manual partitioning step.
In fact Alastair considered all fdisk/*.c files. But if you only extract messages from fdisk/cfdisk.c, PO files are ten times smaller. Some messages could also be removed (like output of cfdisk -h), but it requires patching sources, which is quite unpractical. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]