Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation

2001-09-16 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:55:14AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1.) notification mails > >This is already fixed. > > >Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a > > No it's not. You have to send an email for every package

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation

2001-09-15 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1.) notification mails >This is already fixed. >Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a No it's not. You have to send an email for every package that you maintain. This is simply unacceptable. If I don't stop receiving t

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That's sad since : > - grisu proposed a simple intermediary solution using gettext that > we could use rapidly (you're the first one to say that we can have > several ways of getting the translations, so let's integrate the "easy" > way right now and take t

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:41:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman écrivait: > As I already said, not now besides from what we've just being doing. > I have to admit that the fact that this discussion keeps repeating > itself and people don't seem to accept what we (dpkg people) tell them > makes me rapidl

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:06:25PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: > > > 1.) notification mails > > This is already fixed. > > > > Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a > > Perhaps it would be nice to mention this in the

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: > 1.) notification mails > This is already fixed. > > Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a Perhaps it would be nice to mention this in the notification mail (something like "If you don't want to receive these mails anymo

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:41:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Michael Bramer wrote: > > Please can we make a brainstorming with the apt, dpkg and translator > > developer? > > As I already said, not now besides from what we've just being doing. > I have to admit that the fact tha

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael Bramer wrote: > Please can we make a brainstorming with the apt, dpkg and translator > developer? As I already said, not now besides from what we've just being doing. I have to admit that the fact that this discussion keeps repeating itself and people don't seem to accept what

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Michael Bramer wrote: > > > And if we get translators, why not add a some more languages. We have > > > now in the ddtp only 11 languages at the beginni

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Michael Bramer wrote: > > wordperfect is no free software and they can only support some > > languages. Get KDE, we have 38 kde-i18n-* packages. This is the > > _minimum_. > > This is not just about Debian. It is about

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:35:46PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > > But if you put the translation in the control file, you have to add almost > > hundred fields, on per locale: Description-fr ; Description-fr_FR ; > > Description-fr_CA ; Description-fr_BE just

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Michael Bramer wrote: > > This is not just about Debian. It is about the dpkg packaging system, > which can be (and is) used outside Debian just as well. > > That's decided by whoever makes a package. I don't expect ev

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael Bramer wrote: > wordperfect is no free software and they can only support some > languages. Get KDE, we have 38 kde-i18n-* packages. This is the > _minimum_. This is not just about Debian. It is about the dpkg packaging system, which can be (and is) used outside Debian just as w

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:35:46PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > But if you put the translation in the control file, you have to add almost > > hundred fields, on per locale: Description-fr ; Description-fr_FR ; > > Description-fr_CA ; Description-fr_BE just to have the more used french > > va

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > So, you want to make possible for a package to contain meta-data about > another package, am I right ? Wrong, that would not make any sense. > Or are you thinking about a separate file, not in a package, like the > Packages.gz is ? Yes. > But if you put the tr

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:55:44AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > > > You want to handle 2 by putting the translation in the package. > > > > No, I want it to be possible to have it in the package, but it might > > be elsewhere as well. Putting all translations in all packages doesn't > > scale, b

splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-13 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > > 1) Do the translation > > 2) Put the translation in the Debian archive > > Wrong. `Make the translation available' would be better. Not all packages > are in the Debian archive, and they have t