On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:45:47AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > As far as I can see, xmorph is not really a Debian-specific package and one > could thus consider there is no need to have it packaged as a native Debian > package.
(philosophically speaking, almost all Debian software is not really Debian-specific : even APT is now used in Mandrake and RedHat ) > >From reading the various doc files, I understand that the maintainer is a > co-author of the upstream software, but also that the software is also > developed outside Debian. in the last five years, I have been the only person doing any work in xmorph (but for a few nice contribution by some users) in a sense, the original author has passed me the whole of the package in particular, I am the only author of gtkmorph >So, is there really a reason for having it in the native Debian packages list? xmorph is developed in Debian, and only uploaded into Debian the only reason I keep a page in sourceforge is that it may give it some publicity (and it is free) I have even asked to the sf people to delete the CVS (I dont use it) > What brings me to this topic is localization. I usually recommend > translators who are seeking for work to do to focus on Debian native package > as these software have probably no chance to be translated outside Debian > and are often Debian-specific software. > > So, Debian native packages indeed are prioritized with regard to l10n....and > we of course want to prioritize what really needs to be. xmorph does not have debconf templates , so I guess you are talking about program messages AFAIR no one has ever provided me of any localization for xmorph I have done some localization for italian , but it is outdated a. -- Andrea Mennucc "Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef"
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