Chipzz wrote: > I wondered that too, and extracted the gtk and atk packages into a > temp dir with dpkg-deb -x. It appears they contain the translations. > Why exactly those aren't included in the main packages, I don't > understand.
This is so that shared data is stored in a single architecture- independent package, instead of being duplicated in the binary packages for each architecture. The intent is to save space on the archive and mirrors. I think that Lintian even has a check for large amounts of /usr/shara data in arch-dependent packages. I don't know why some some packages use -data and some use -common for their arch-independent files.
