Quoting MP ([email protected]): > dpkg will consult this file in .deb (if present) with global settings, > not installing those files that belong to locale that is unwanted > (possibly not even storing metadata, like md5sums, etc ... so even > dpkg -L won't list them). > > the "control" in control.tar.gz should them probably contain some field > "Localisations:" (for example "Localisations: cd de en fi pl"), so if > user changes later his mind and changes requested translations set, > then only affected packages could get processed (extra translations > either removed or installed as needed) > > Package maintainers would need to start adding this information, > though ... but I don't think this will cause muchy extra work for > them.
You may want to read http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2009/03/msg00085.html, as well as http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/tdeb/ and, in general, most Google hits on "tdeb". As such, you'll see that this is anything but as trivial as you seem to think and also doesn't only impact dpkg. So, while I perfectly understand your motivations, I'm not sure that this bug report alone will help that much. I suspect it might rot in the BTS until tdebs are fully implemented (which might take not less than 2 release cycles).
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