> Well Wichert and I have talked about this. > > One nice thing about debconf is it separates out nearly all translatable > text from the postinst and configure script into it's template file. So it > merely becomes a question of adding translations to that file. The file is > formatted similarly to a package's control file, and should be extensible > enough so we can embed translated text in it in a variety of ways (what > works good for a control file?)
I don't know about debconf, but it would be great if you can integrate it with gettext... You would just need to set the "textdomain" and call gettext (included in libc6) for each message.
