APT and dpkg Translations

Volkan Gezer volkangezer at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 20:29:40 UTC 2013


Hello,

Thank you for your answer,

I contacted with localization team in Ubuntu... What about subversion
translations?

Best regards,,
Volkan GEZER
volkangezer at gmail.com


2013/2/4 Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:18:56AM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> On 29 January 2013 10:00, Volkan Gezer <vlkngzr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Should APT and DPKG translations be done from Debian or Launchpad?
>>
>> In Ubuntu it's part of the language packs.
>
> No, apt and dpkg are explicitly excluded from language packs (see
> pkgbinarymangler/striptranslations.blacklist) because their strings are
> needed in the installer before language packs are installed.  Thus
> translating them in Launchpad is effectively useless.
>
> If you want translations for these packages to have any effect, they
> should be done in Debian, even though there'll be some propagation time.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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