[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Packaging an extra locale in Roundcube

[Richard Laager]

On 11/13/19 3:36 PM, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> I haven't tried to have it merged upstream since I doubt it would be
> accepted (gender neutral translations issues tend to be quite
> acrimonious, especially in the French translation community...)

I think you should try. Users have to opt-in to using fr_FEM over
regular fr, right? So it doesn't hurt anyone who hasn't chosen to use it?

Are there other packages with French gender neutral translations? I did
a Google search for fr_FEM and all I really found was your Roundcube
translation. If so, are they using the fr_FEM locale too?

If fr_FEM is not standardized... Where is FEM coming from? Is that
related to "feminine" or something else in French? I wonder if fr_FRN
would be better, as that would allow nicely for fr_CAN if there is a
similar effort in the future for Canadian French (fr_CA).

> I would like to package it in Debian for ease of use.
> 
> I don't know how complicated packaging Roundcube is, but I doubt you
> want to deal with repacking upstream's tarball to add an extra locale.

If the Debian roundcube package maintainers (who I am not one of) wish
to ship this, there's no need to re-pack the tarball. It could be
shipped as a Debian patch (or alternatively as a second orig tarball,
but that'd be less common and it probably still needs a patch to hook
the new language code into the build system).

-- 
Richard

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