On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote: > fre 2003-03-21 klockan 09.39 skrev Martin Quinson: > > > You could run po2debconf instead, which is essentially a wrapper script > > > around intltool-merge. > > > > So, po2debconf works for package descriptions ? It's really a po2rfc822 ? > > Nice to hear! > > So it seems. :-) > > > > > Is this something we want to use? It's really nice to have everything in > > > > the same po file, and nice for translators that rather work in their > > > > favourite character set instead of utf-8. > > > > > > I concur. > > > Are localized fields harmless in control files? > > > > Yup, same question here. Does udpkg handle those files? > > base-installer has a > XB-Description-nb: Installer basesystemet > field. Yes, udpkg handles them.
Fine. > > But also, will those descriptions be presented to the users during the > > installation (in which case I think udpkg should handle this) or not (in > > which case the code to handle this may be unneeded). > > main-menu takes care of this. Well, not with -LL.UTF-8, but that's > easily changed. > > Either we have to make sure that we get the XB- prepended to the > localized description headers, or we tap into dh_gencontrol and only do > it in the target file (debian/$(PACKAGE)/DEBIAN/control). The latter > sounds most interesting to me. I prefer the former; debian/control must be edited to replace Description by _Description. So we could add something like: po2debconf debian/control.in | sed -e 's/^Description-/XB-Description-/' > debian/control dh_gencontrol I am working to make po-debconf more generic (#171377), and when it is done I will certainly add a new po2control script. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
