Proposed policy (for future Debian releases >= 2.1 ): If translated documentation for a package foo is available, it should be included in that package, not in a general package for translated documentation (Example: Section 1 man pages in manpages-<LANG> packages. They should be included in the relevant packages).
If the translated documentation and messages in package foo_<V>-<R>.deb exceeds NNN KB [... What's a reasonable value for NNN? ...] extract it to architecture-independent sub-packages foo-<LANG>_<V>-<R>.deb that Depends: foo (= <V>-<R>), Provides: foo-translated-docs_<V>-<R> [... versioned Provides! dpkg must handle that! ...] and make foo_<V>-<R>.deb Suggests: foo-translated-docs (= <V>-<R>) Package management frontends should be extended to hide foo-<LANG>_<V>-<R>.deb from the packages list [... as was suggested for libraries in Deity ...] -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna
