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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

The proposed package installs two files per language in
/usr/share/skype/lang. It works fine together with the current versions
of available Skype clients for Linux, but there is a potential future
issue: If a future version of the Skype client includes a translation in
a language which is already installed via a skype-translation-* package,
that translation won't be installed, since package files with the same
names exist already. This is not the intention with skype-translation;
its purpose is to provide translations that are not bundled with the
Skype client.

My idea for a solution is to let skype-translation-* install the files
somewhere else (in /usr/share/skype-translation) and put symlinks in
/usr/share/skype/lang using maintainer scripts. That way, if a
translation already installed by skype-translation-* is added to a
future version of the Skype client, the symlinks will be overwritten,
and the bundled translation will be used instead. Attached please find
examples of the maintainer scripts I have in mind.

** Attachment added: "maint-scripts.tar.gz"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1314402/+attachment/4110645/+files/maint-scripts.tar.gz

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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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