Hi, this is side note comments only. On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:16:32PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > We (me and Ramakrishnan) need help from you on "Best Practice for > > Documentation Packaging." > (...) > Well. There is currently none, as you have guessed. Maybe good time to discuss.
> > developers-reference. They just generate only one packages for all the > > languages. > > Not good. IMHO, we could get to the problem of locales (that was > "fixed" with apt-localepurge) ?? This is transition package, isn't it? localepurge? Still ... This is just a simple script to recover disk space wasted for unneeded locale files and localized man pages. It will automatically be invoked upon completion of any apt installation run. > > My observation are: > > APT-HOWTO seems to have one source with many language specific .deb > > packages. But file name convention for language is totally unusual. > > I think separate language .deb package is a good idea. > > Why do you say filename convention is unusual? $ ls CVS Makefile apt-howto-en.sgml apt-howto-es.sgml apt-howto-it.sgml apt-howto-ja.sgml apt-howto-ko.sgml apt-howto-pl.sgml apt-howto-pt_BR.sgml apt-howto-ru.sgml Hyphen is unusual. apt-howto.en.sgml apt-howto.es.sgml apt-howto.it.sgml apt-howto.ja.sgml apt-howto.ko.sgml apt-howto.pl.sgml apt-howto.pt_BR.sgml apt-howto.ru.sgml This is better. Also, convention on pt_BR is strange. We do not say en_US while we can say en_GB. Compounding problem is LC_ALL=fr will not switch "date" to produce French date. It has to be LC_ALL=fr_FR. (Any good command for this?? Get date from system or convert date from C locale to something else.) > > FAQ seems to have separate .deb and sources for separate languages. > > As a matter of fact, doc-debian-es contains the FAQ translation > (which is not in CVS), and doc-debian-fr contains some documents but *not* > the FAQ translation. Also, there are no Russian or polish doc-debian-XX > packages (but are in CVS) Headache .... > > Also install location for html seems to vary. > > > Yes. Some include them in the same directory as text files > , some in a separate directory and some as a tar.gz > > > Any policy to follow? > > > None currently :( > > > Or it is anarchy or Javier or Josip are thinking something. > > > > Well. I do have ideas, have not expressed them in public. > Here we go (out of my head): Let me comment on different thread. :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
