Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: [OOo-H] Debian
language packages for OO":
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
> > > I would just love it if we had a language package for Debian.
> >
> > You aren't the only one. This is on our task list for 2004.
> >
> > > Does the project currently have patches for 1.1.1b ?
> >
> > No.
>
> A few weeks ago, I pointed out that even without being able to compile
> OpenOffice, there's much a volunteer can probably do to help that project.
>
> Sure, it would be great if Sun or TKOS created Debian packages, but why
> wait for them? Somebody with knowledge of building debs, and a little
> knowledge, can do wonders.
I guess that it's possible to take the deb sources and rebuild OO using the
scripts they use, but that will never get into the official debian
distribution.
> For the English deb, you can take Sun's procompiled version, add a few
> shell-scripts and such and call it a deb.
Funny you say this, because I actually did try to do just that, since it
takes about 10 minutes to create such package .. but i wasn't able to make it
work and I think I know why. there most be some other changes, (other than
translated fies) and there's no way to integrate it with the version of OO
currently present in Sid (i actually spent couple of hours trying ;{ ).
the result , as expected , was very lame and unfunctional:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/kazit/debs/openoffice.org-l10n-he_1.1.0-1_i386.deb
The only way to make things right is to work with Debian OO team
(http://openoffice.debian.net/). Make it work officially and not suply hacks
and temporary fixes.
> I wonder if that's not what the
> Debian people actually did (rather than compile the whole thing
> themselves). For the Hebrew version, you can do the same.
No I can't. I talked with some members of the debian OO team on IRC
(#debian-oo @freenode). The packages are built from source like most of the
official debian packages. I asked what is required for creating hebrew
packages and they said that all they need is a patch .. but the versions have
to match ..
> But what would be
> most interesting would be to take Hebrew and English versions of the same
> release, and see which of the files actually differ. Many of them probably
> wouldn't, and all sorts of tricks like symbolic links, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
> etc., can be played so that the combined Hebrew-English would not be 2
> times as large as the English distribution, hopefully only (say) 1.1 times
> as large.
i can try to do that but i don't know eough about OO structure.
>
> Of course, this is rather ugly, and I'm not entirely sure this would
> work, but if some volunteer wants to do something useful instead of waiting
> for JBA and his crew (who are also busy doing other things!), it's
> certainly worth a shot.
As I said, I don't think ugly hacks are the right way to deal with this issue.
These hacks never last too long.
>
> (P.S. the credit for this idea is due to Tzafrir Cohen, I saw him mention
> it it on another list).
Ofcourse... that makes sense :)
Regards,
Shlomi Loubaton.
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