>
> I'd like to contribute some packages, but I'd like to ask some
> questions first:
>
> 1. One of these packages is the replacement of `libX11.so'. Do I have to make
> whole alternative version of appropriate standard X package or is there some
> way to make small "one-file-replacement" package?
One way of doing it is making your own directory, say,
/usr/X11R6/lib/xczech
put your czech version of libX11.so in that dir, and, in the postinst
add the /usr/X11R6/lib/xczech to the front of /etc/ld.so.conf.
(and remove it again in the postrm).
This is the way it is done in Xaw3d, and seems to work reasonable well.
> 2. Some of these packages (like X fonts) would be related to ISO-8859-2 only
> and some of them (like Czech fonts and format files for TeX) are even
> interesting only for Czech speaking users. It is probably not good idea to
> place Czech-only packages to the main tree. Or it is?
Well, I think it is. There are the german man pages, and I think a
few non-english dictionaries in the main tree too. And, put it another
way, most of the main-tree is only of interest to the english-speaking
community -- why would we discriminate against czech?
Then again, I come from Europe to, and my first language isn't English
eighter.
Good luck with your packages!
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