Re: dynamic Text in package descriptions

2011-08-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Torsten Werner writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Bramer wrote: >> ! Description: Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime >> !  This package points to the Java runtime, or Java compatible >> !  runtime recommended for the ${jre:arch} architecture, >> !  which is ${jre} for ${jre

Re: dynamic Text in package descriptions

2011-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:28:59PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:11:27PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > - This make extra load for the translation of this description. > > It does and for that reason I'm including debian-i18n in this discussion. > For the record

Re: dynamic Text in package descriptions

2011-08-19 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi, On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Bramer wrote: > ! Description: Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime > !  This package points to the Java runtime, or Java compatible > !  runtime recommended for the ${jre:arch} architecture, > !  which is ${jre} for ${jre:arch}. the interesting p

dynamic Text in package descriptions

2011-08-19 Thread Michael Bramer
Hello If you look a the control file from java-common-0.40, you found something like this: ! Package: default-jre ! Architecture: any ! Depends: default-jre-headless (= ${binary:Version}), ${jre}${jre:version}, ! ${misc:Depends} ! Provides: ${jre:provides} ! Description: Standard Java or Java c

Re: dynamic Text in package descriptions

2011-08-19 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:11:27PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > - This make extra load for the translation of this description. It does and for that reason I'm including debian-i18n in this discussion. For the record I support the idea that dynamic descriptions should be discouraged unless ther