[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#700915: simple-cdd: Should provide translations of the debconf prompt simple-cdd/profiles

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Sun, 03 Mar 2013, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:33:30AM +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> > When you opt to not preseed simple-cdd/profiles, you get an English debconf prompt.
> > 
> > Considering that debian-installer is very well translated, it's a bit of a
> > pity to get this non-translated prompt.
> 
> The intention was to allow this template to be edited directly... and the
> assumption was if someone wanted it translated, they would supply a translated
> template.

So the user should rebuild simple-cdd and provide an updated version via
local_packages? That was the idea?

> > It should not be too difficult to setup some translation infrastructure
> > with po2debconf and the related tools of po-debconf.
> 
> I guess we could provide the infrastructure to translate the default template,
> and if they want to edit the template they lose translations, or ideally
> include a mechanism to supply a customized template and .po file as well...

What I wonder is why you didn't put the templates at its usual place in
debian/simple-cdd-profiles.templates and then it's trivial to use the
po-debconf stuff for this.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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