On 29-Aug-01, 19:51 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland wrote: > > A standalone .deb w/o a Package file doesn't integrate into apt or > > dselect, so there's no where to show the descriptions. The only reason > > one would have an interest in such a .deb is that one already has a > > pretty good idea of what it is, presumably from an accompaning README, > > or the webpage with a link, or somesuch. I doubt very many people go > > around browsing random .debs with 'dpkg-deb -I'. > > Speak for yourself. I do it all the time. I also regularly mail people > .deb's, or put them up breifly for ftp without a Packages file, or > distribute and receive them in a myriad of other ways that don't involve > apt.
But you don't send out random packages to people who don't already have some idea of what the package does, do you? > So you don't feel yourself competant to maintain any packages that have > gettextized messages translated to other languages either? > > Or if you do, how is that any different than maintaining translated > descriptions? The gettextized messages are maintained upstream -- presumably they been vetted. I'm not directly responsible for that. I *am* responsible for the Debian specific stuff. Steve
