Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Dominique Devriese] >> PROPOSED DEBIAN SYSTEM > [...] >> 2. The translators don't try to get their work included in Debian >> packages. Instead they provide one package of their own, that they >> can occasionally release in sid if they want to.
> We discussed something like this for the new installer, making it > possible to update/add translations independent of the "real" > packages. For this to work, one need to be able to add translations > to the debconf database. Perhaps debconf could be changed to use gettext instead. I.e. when it sees a translatable string in a template, it calls gettext on it. That way, all the translation packages have to do is to put the .(g)mo files in the right location. Perhaps I forgot to mention this, but this is also how the KDE project works. cheers domi
