On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:11:00AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > - I would like to have templates with substitution fields. > > > > > > > > Already exists. > > > > > > Any references? > > > > How about the debconf manual?
> but sorry, we have some outdated translations in debconf templates > files. No translator know, if someone change the english template. > Please can we use gettext or something other without 'outdated > translations'? Joey ? If you are concerned that translators receive automatic notification when a source debconf template has changed, that's an infrastructure problem. Neither debconf nor gettext has automatic translator notifications built-in, and debconf's templates are not an inferior solution for not providing this. Debconf, if used correctly, does correctly handle merging of outdated translations. See debconf-mergetemplate(1). Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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