Which languages shall be supported with the lang packs, and how?
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at canonical.com
Fri Nov 12 07:49:43 CST 2004
Hi!
I prepared a very first rough patch for OO.o to support language
packs. The current version can be seen at
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~pitti/ooo-ubuntu7.diff
It changes the dependencies for all openoffice.org-l10n-* packages
from
Depends: openoffice.org
(with some version, but that does not matter here) to
Depends: openoffice.org | language-support-XX
However, while doing this some questions arose:
- IIRC we only want to support 10 to 15 languages. Nevertheless I
think it does not hurt to provide alternative dependencies for all
l10n packages anyway; if a particular language-support-XX package is
not actually available, then the l10n package will behave exactly
like the old version (without an alternative at all). Is this okay
for everybody?
- There are some sublanguages which have a more irregular name, like
"pt" and "pt-br" (Brazilian Portugese), or "zh-cn" and "zh-tw".
Ideally, d-i would just try to install "language-support-XX" if
language "XX" was selected. But these special cases prevent this.
One possibility is to have just l-s-pt and l-s-zh and have the
metapackage depend on all "sublanguages". A bit of a waste, but
keeps the installer side easy.
Or we leave the language packs as they are now in above patch, but
then need a mapping of all languages to their available special
cases in d-i.
Thanks for any input,
Martin
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Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
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