cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > Almost no packages currently do this, hence relying on the package > description to check wether a package is localized for your language is > completely unreliable.
Agreed. > For a list of localised packages check http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po/ > for your language, true it only cover's gettext localisations but that's > 99% of all localisation in free software anyway (this misses some localised > webapps but that's about it AFAIK) > > For a specific package you can also use apt-file or packages.debian.org to > check for the presence of a <lang-code>.po file for your language. These are hardly practical solutions from a user perspective, even though they are very helpful for developers. What I meant is that I believe in the need for a way to tell users which languages the package they intend to install supports (which doesn't include greping for the package in a separate huge list of for files in the source ;-) ) Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here]
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