Thoughts about separating language packs

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:15:32PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> == Automatic extraction ==
> 
> There are two obvious points where an automatic extraction could be
> hooked in during package build:
> 
>  1. dh_builddeb
>  2. dpkg-deb
>  
> We currently have 1047 source packages, but as much as 265 do not use
> debhelper. Although a debhelper hook would be easier, it would miss
> about a quarter of our source packages, which is not acceptable.
> 
> Therefore, dpkg-deb must be modified, preferably in a general way so
> that it could go to Debian, too. dpkg-dev should introduce a directory
> 
>   /etc/dpkg/dpkg-deb-hook.d/

We need to make sure that this does not kick in for .udebs, since this
system isn't suitable there.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]