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 *not* be translated because you haven't yet > > downloaded the latest translation package. > > no. If you download the desc-trans-XX.de you have all translations > from XX on your system. Not only the translations from the installed > packages.
I'm aware of this - what I was getting at is something like - a new package gets added to the archive - translators update the desc-trans package with a translation - J. Random Hacker does an apt-get update and then looks through the list of new packages for anything worth installing In this case J. will *always* see English descriptions for the new packages, since he hasn't upgraded the desc package yet. > see my comments from a other proposal. Maybe we should make > Descriptions-XX files (like the Packages files), Yes, I think this might be the best thing to do. (In fact, there's hardly a difference to the per-language Packages that I have been proposing before.) > get this with apt and make the po files with this files. This > Descriptions files can maybe stored in one place per dist. > > > Independent of the solution, we need some > - translated Packages file What for? I thought with this new proposal all translated descriptions end up in the Description-XX, and Packages contains the English descriptions? > - Description-XX file (with translated descriptions) > - a desc-trans-XX.deb (with a po/mo file with translated > descriptions) > if the user should see translated descriptions before he installed a > package. AIUI, the desc-trans-XX.deb contains "overrides" for outdated descriptions in the source packages. But why put them in a separate package when you can put them directly into the Description-XX file? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
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