[ubuntu-x] Splitting out translations from xkb-data.

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:59:18AM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Evan Dandrea wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>>>> Does it need packaging changes to xkb-data, and maintenance from the team in
>>>> the future?
>>>
>>> Yes, it would need an additional Package, xkb-data-i18n, added to
>>> xkeyboard-config's control file.  I've attached a rudimentary patch
>>> for this, and would appreciate a review.
>>>
>>> Yes, it would require a delta against Debian's xkeyboard-config to be
>>> maintained.
>>
>> Doesn't look too bad to me, go for it. And unless I'm mistaken, it could
>> even be accepted by debian sometime in the future.
>
> Conceptually I'm okay with this, however I don't grok how changing the
> target directory to debian/tmp achieves the above, could you explain how
> this works?

By using *.install files which copy the stuff from debian/tmp, instead of 
putting it all in debian/xkb-data.

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