Separating Mozilla/OO.o language packs [was: Re: Thoughts about separating language packs]

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Chris Halls [2004-11-11 21:25 +0000]:
> > Currently both the mozilla and the OO.o language debs depend on the
> > respective main package, i. e. mozilla-firefox-locale-de depends on
> > mozilla-firefox. However, it is relatively easy to modify Mozilla,
> > FireFox and OO.o so that language packs can be installed independently
> > of the main package. 
> > 
> > This has the advantage that we do not need to bother with extracting
> > the contents of various l10n debs and merge them into a "language
> > pack". Instead it would be enough to have e. g. ubuntu-language-de
> > depend on mozilla-firefox-locale-de, openoffice.org-l10n-de,
> > myspell-de-de and so on.
> > 
> > Unless there are objections to this approach, I would start to modify
> > the existing l10n debs to be installable independently and create
> > ubuntu-language-* metapackages afterwards. If we decide to really
> > extract gettext stuff, we can always enrich these language packs with
> > it later.
> 
> This sounds like a reasonable idea to me.  We have exactly the same
> problem concerning OOo and tasksel for Debian proper.  I wonder if we
> could come up with a package name that could be provided by both tasksel
> and the ubuntu language packs, maybe language-*?  I'd be happy to add
> such a Depends into the language packs for OOo.

I do not really understand what you mean. I do not intend to change
the package name for the existing l10n debs. I merely want to create
a set of (so far empty) metapackages (ubuntu-language-XX) which depend
on a reasonable set of existing language debs. So I do not see what
you mean by "add such a Depends into the language packs for OOo".

The only thing I want to change is the dependency of the l10n debs to
their "main" package because the removal of one application should not
cause the forced removal of the whole language pack.

But if there is anything that would make this change useful for
Debian, too, I'd be happy to implement it. I already spoke with Rene
Engelhard and he seems to be open to the idea, too.

Thanks for enlightenment and have a nice day!

Martin

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