[Debian-l10n-devel] on the size of ftp..dists..i18n

[Michael Bramer]

Nicolas François schrieb:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:12:28PM +0000, Michael Bramer wrote:
>>> If you could get rid of the gzip and uncompressed version (and if the
>>> above example is representative) you could cut down the change by
>>> over 80% to a meager 16% of what you use now.
>>>
>>> Is that an option?
>> We can remove the other files, or use apt, aptitute, some random util
>> the other files?
> 
> Sorry Michael, I did not really get your answer.

sorry

> Do you mean we can safely remove these files because apt and aptitute will
> just be happy is there are only the .bz2 files?

Yes, apt should be happy  with the bz2 files

> (apt* and packages.debian.org are also the only tools I know which use the
> translations, and these tools are OK if there is only a bz2 file; I also
> do not expect any breakage (other than a translation not being displayed))

> To complete the removal of the non compressed and .gz files, we need to
> update the ddtp_i18n_check.sh script we provided to ftpmasters during
> Debconf.

Yes. Please make a new ddtp_i18n_check.sh, that don't nag, if the plain 
text und the gz file is missing. After this I change the generation scripts.

Thanks

Grisu