Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

[Matthew East]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Martin Pitt<martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Matthew East [2009-08-27 19:36 +0100]:
>> I suspect that it should be possible to add an alternative search path
>> to yelp so that it checks in more than one location.
>
> It's not just yelp, though, there are also the omf files which seem to
> be handled by rarian?

Yes, I don't know all the details but I think that rarian might need a
change as well.

>> Incidentally, is the stripping also going to be done for other
>> packages using the directory /usr/share/gnome/help (such as
>> ubuntu-docs)?
>
> Usually yes. Particular packages can opt out in the usual way by
> setting NO_PKG_MANGLE=1 in debian/rules.
>
>> If so, am I right that we can go back to shipping all
>> languages in the ubuntu-docs package, rather than only those which are
>> >70% translated?
>
> That's indeed true, if you would like ubuntu-docs to be
> stripped/distributed that way, too.

I can't see any disadvantage - sounds neat, thanks for working on it.

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Matthew East
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