Fabrizio Polacco wrote: >On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: >> man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages, >> as well as English ones. > >This is one of the goals of Debian. >It is surely the main reason for *my* partacipation to the project. >When I find a package wich doesn't install all the translations >available in its sources, I raise a bug asking to do so.
My point wasn't that installing man pages for multiple languages was wrong, just that installing them without asking was wrong. >> This might not seem like a significant disk usage for this package >> (it's about 25K extra for each language), but consider if every >> program installed four versions. > >Then the necessity to have such decision tool will become urgent, and >the tool will be done. If I drop translations, this will never be done. You're probably right here. My intention in filing this bug report was more to bring up this point as a general problem. It's not a bug against man-db in the sense of 'this must be fixed immediately'. [but on the other hand I'm not sure severity: wishlist is right either] >> My /usr/man/man?/ tree is about 5MB, >> and I would certainly object if Debian installed an unnecessary extra >> 15MB of man pages I would never read. > >Your opinion that translations are "unnecessary extras" is only your >opinion. My aim is to create a multilingual distribution. They're unnecessary extras *on my machine*. If I don't want a web server on my machine, I don't install that package. If I don't want the Linux HOWTOs, I don't install doc-linux-text. If I don't want Spanish documentation, I should be able to not install it. Presumably this is (will be) a problem for (eg) German users too -- why should they have Spanish man pages *unless they ask for them*? >My preferred >example for this is a shell machine in a ISP in Europe Obviously some admins will want all language versions. But they are in the minority and Debian ought to cater for the rest of us too. >If you don't reassign this bug to dpkg or apt, I will close it in two >days (as later I will be busy). <rant> Oi! I'm an end user (OK, so I browse debian-devel :->). I'm not supposed to have to know how to manipulate the bug tracking system. I agree that man-db might not be the right place for this bug report, but I wasn't sure where to file bugs against programs that don't exist (our hypothetical language management tool) so I picked the only package on my system with multiple-language manpages. If you don't think it's filed against the right package, it's *your* responsibility as a developer to reassign it to the right place. </rant> [In fact, I probably could reassign it, if I read the BTS documentation; but as a point of principle you shouldn't ask me to :->] Peter Maydell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
