Which languages shall be supported with the lang packs, and how?

[Martin Pitt]

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
-- 
Martin Pitt                       http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer            http://www.ubuntulinux.org
Debian GNU/Linux Developer       http://www.debian.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/attachments/20041112/2b7cbf4e/attachment-0001.pgp