On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:59:01PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:36:40AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > SHARED TEMPLATES > > > It's actually possible to have a template and a question that > > > are shared among a set of packages. All the packages have to > > > provide an identical copy of the template in their templates > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > files. This can be useful if a bunch of packages need to ask > > > the same question, and you only want to bother the user with it > > > once. Shared templates are generally put in the shared/ > > > pseudo-directory in the debconf tem- plate namespace. > > > > What happens when the template changes in the template package but is > > out of sync in the other packages? > > > > IIRC, last installed package wins and puts its version of the template into > the debconf database, even if it is not the most up-to-date. If there is a > package that has no translations at all for the shared question and is > installed after packages having plenty of translations, there will be no > translations at all for that shared question in the debconf database.
What about a rule that says: - If the package name is the same as the directory in the debconf database then use that package's templates take priority. - Else, as before. The package includes the template-package's templates at build (debhelper style as suggested before). Then up to date translations can be ensured by installing a debconf-translation-templates meta package or templates package before the package. (Pre-depends / Recommends / Installer business??) -- Brian Sutherland
