On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 02:03:58PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.43.6-1
>
> The recently split translations ended up being added as a Suggests in
> e2fsprogs, which means they will not be installed by default anymore.
> This should probably be a Recommends, which would allow people to
> remove them, but would be pulled in by default.
It hasn't been clear to me whether there is some kind of de factor
standard about what the priority of translations should be. They are
not strictly speaking necessary for the proper operation of e2fsprogs,
and people have started complaining that the translation files is
getting very heavyweight.
Some kind of guideline about how these packages should be named (e.g.,
-l10n versus -locales) and what priority they would be might be a good
thing to publish somewhere, if it doesn't already exist? I'm not
entirely certain it needs to be in Debian Policy as a mandatory thing,
but I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out what was considered
best practice, and it wasn't obvious to me. Perhaps my Google-Fu failed me.
:-)
- Ted
