On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:38:58AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:51:00AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > 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. > > if the templates are included at build-time by a debhelper-style script, > there's no need for a runtime dependency for these templates.
How do you then solve the problem of the translations and such becoming out of date? (Maybe it is not such a problem if the package is rebuilt frequently, but the translation changes infrequently) > > > (Pre-depends / Recommends / Installer business??) > > i think Pre-depends should be avoided at any possible cost. this > unfortunately means that the REGISTER suggestion won't reliably work, > which is really too bad because that would have been the most graceful > solution. What do you do instead of REGISTER if each package wants to have it's own question? Change the directories of the questions when copying? > over the past week i've been in contact with joeyh about the > feasability of doing this with a debhelper-style script, and think > i have the workings of a primitive version hashed out with him. Thanks, Great!! let me know if you need somebody to test it. (or even help) -- Brian Sutherland
