First set of language packs out for testing

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 19 11:11:49 CST 2005


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:29:02AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman [2005-01-18 11:57 -0800]:
> > This sounds like a pretty good idea actually, to separate localized
> > applications from support for reading/writing documents in a particular
> > language.  Martin?
> 
> I do not want to introduce yet another package, we already have 246
> new packages right now. What I could do is to remove the dependency of
> language-support-XX to language-pack-XX-update, so the two can be
> installed independently. 
> 
> That would mean that the installer would need to install both the
> language pack and the support package instead of just the support
> package, but I guess that is not a problem.
> 
> If there is a consensus to do it like this, I will update the packages
> soon.

What about having language-pack-XX depend on language-support-XX (the
reverse)?  Presumably the fonts and such are required in order to display
the translations.

-- 
 - mdz



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