Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We believe this is warranted for these release goals because they >> significantly improve the overall quality of the distribution across >> packages, as well as etch's usefulness to a range of users. > > i18n people, here's a draft of a request to the release team, after > Debconf discussions with Otavio and Grisu.
I'm in contact with mvo to get APT moved to SID as soon as possible. It's still available only in experimental. > It is meant to try to officially have supprot for the DDTP material as > a release goal for etch...which seems feasible. > > This is just a draft, please feel free to correct/amend/complete. I'm > mostly offline for the next days, so interaction might be a bit > complicated. I'm also trying to get a import of translation data once so we don't need to use external repositories for testing. Just sid, as a test, is enough. > ---------------------- cut here ---------------------------------- > > Please feel free to just tell me that's too late, but i18n-related > discussions at Debconf have shown that adding "support for packages > descriptions translations" as a pet release goal is somewhat > reasonable, at first glance. > > A huge amount of material is currently available, as the result of the > DDTP work by l10n teams, up to 2002. > > This material is mostly ready for being used and maintained, as files > named "Translations-*" meant to be hosted on Debian mirrors. > > APT now includes support for such translated packages descriptions. > > To use them, users currently need to add the following to their > sources.list file: deb http://ddtp.debian.net/debian sid main > The next step would be to allow such files to go on official Debian > mirrors, which requires synchronization and discussion between the > i18n team and the ftpmaster team. > > --------------------------- cut here ------------------------------ -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://www.freedom.ind.br/otavio --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft gives you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
