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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Packaging very large i18n material
From:       Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus () rath ! org>
Date:       2003-06-09 17:59:03
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Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> wrote:
> 2) Build 37 different koffice-i18n-lang binary packages (like kde-i18n).
> 
> This is bad because we add another 37 binary packages to the archives.
> This is also not a solution that generalises since if we did this
> for every package in the archive that provides i18n files our package
> list would get completely out of hand.

I think this is the way to go. If this is done using a common naming
scheme, aptitude or dselect could hide all the localisation packages
and ask for the language to be used when selecting the binary package.


   --Nikolaus


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