Thoughts about separating language packs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:19:59PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:39 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > If you upload 20 packages in a raw that will trigger the update, you
> > will also get 20 x n-languages packages rebuild. I don't think this is
> > an acceptable amount of data to push to users tracking hoary/unstable.
> > 
> > You will end up with users putting the lang packages on hold.
> > 
> > So the idea of accomulating the changes to the lang package and push
> > them once a day, if required, is imho an acceptable compromise.
> 
> Hrm, we could do it smarter than that, though. We could rebuild language
> packs only if there are translation-related changes in the upload (which
> may require the help of Rosetta), be it a new upstream version or in the
> diff.gz.

The extraction must happen during the package builds, but we can build the
language packs themselves at whatever frequency we like.

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 - mdz