[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Selecting language specific stuff to be installed

[Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi]

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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org> wrote:
> Most (list-)adminstrators will not want to support the full range of
> available languages on their system; I guess between 1 and 3 languages
> will be most common.
 Sorry for my very slow comment on this, no excuses. Well, I wonder how we
should handle #238377 (split languages into separate package) now. I like
your proposal (and the solution itself as well, as it's well designed),
and we can make a mailman-i18n or so package out of the language files,
mailman depending on that.

> IMHO there should be a mechansism supporting selective installation of
> language specific stuff thereby reducing the space occupied in /etc
> and allowing for a really tiny root FS.
 Even on larger ones, as I think most people can't even see Japanese
localised files.

> An implementation might use a debconf question like locale does or
> even decide based on which locales are installed, the latter approach
> with the drawback of requiring a reconfigure of mailman whenever locale
> is reconfigured.
 Thanks for the solution! Unfortunately the postinst became more chatty,
as now (ok, only the first time) I get more info on what's going on for
removing language files. Also I get plus one line for adding the new
localised files, probably because ucf --three-way. I do not know why, but I
have one file left in each language I haven't selected: admlogin.html;
trying to look into this.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS

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