[Bug 1314402] Re: Please upload skype-translation to the archive

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks, Robie, for your feedback!

I have replaced the symlink idea, aimed at preventing possible future
file conflicts, with the use of dpkg-divert, as suggested by Adam Conrad
on IRC.

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2014/06/03/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t15:52

Other changes:

* As you suggested, I removed the 27 debian/skype-translation-* files
  and let instead debian/rules create them when building.

* Added debian/README.source which explains the simple nature of this
  package. ;) It also mentions the reasons why I propose the native
  source package format.

* Changed debian/copyright so it refers to GPL-3 instead of GPL-3+.

So far I haven't added "Enhances: skype" to the binaries. In a previous
proposal I had "Depends: skype", but Iain Lane pointed out that you
shouldn't let a package depend on packages that are not available in the
ordinary archive. I suppose that objection would apply to "Enhances"
too.

The latest version of the proposed package is available at
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/skype-translation

Hopefully it's now in a shape that makes it acceptable for upload.
Please let me know if there still is anything that ought to be changed.

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Title:
  Please upload skype-translation to the archive

Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The Skype client for Linux comes bundled with translations into a few
  languages, but most languages are missing. The skype-translation
  package makes the most complete translations at

  https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/skype-translation-
  project/resource/skype-linux/

  easily available to Ubuntu users.

  The proposed debian/copyright file is in a preliminary state at the
  moment; the wording I use claims that the translations are in public
  domain, since the site, where the translations have been uploaded,
  does not refer to a license. The only wording I have found that gives
  some kind of indication on the matter is at

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/skypeinyourlang/

  "This is a free repository for files that have been translated by
  volunteers so users can download and install them."

  I have talked with the project administrator Michael Bauer, and he has
  announced that they may state a free license on the site very soon. If
  that happens, debian/copyright should reasonably be changed
  accordningly.

  The package I request a review of is the utopic package at
  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/skype-translation

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