Marco d'Itri writes:
> On Aug 21, Rafael Caetano dos Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Clearly, many people don't want hundreds of foreign language manpages
> >installed. But unfortunately our installation system doesn't handle
> >thinks like "profiles" or "environment variables", which could be used to
> >tell each installation script which language(s) will be used on the
> >system. Hopefully, this kind of thing will be included in dpkgV2, or at
> A rm -rf of the appropriate trees after upgrades is a good workaround.
I agree (but some people don't).
> >My (unofficial) proposal is roughly: if there are translated manpages for
> >a package, and a developer sends them to the mantainer, he must include
> >them in the package.
> I agree, but we should really try to pass them upstream.
Then there are problems with large release cycles. There's a delay
between the a new release, with new or altered manpages, and the
translation of those manpages. I _guess_ most upstream mantainers are
unwilling to release new versions only to add translated manpages.
bye
Rafael Caetano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
