What is the status of Features/YumLangpackPlugin?

[José Matos]

On Thursday 02 June 2011 16:28:56 Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 1) "This feature will also allow firefox and thunderbird to earn
> > langpacks as  they deserve."
> 
> It certainly allows for it - it requires that the packagers take advantage
> of it. ISTR discussions in the past that the mechanics of creating the
> langpacks in the spec file wasn't something they wanted to deal with at the
> time. yum-langpacks can't help with that part.

That is fair, thanks for the note.

> > 2) In the Optional/longer term ideas:
> > "3. recommendation for Packaging Guideline for standard naming of
> > langpacks  (eg <basename>-langpack-<lang>)"
> >
> > 
> >
> > This seems an easy step, both to standardize the form of <lang> as well
> > as to  suggest a virtual provides to packages that already provide this,
> > I am thinking in this case of packages like kde-i18n* or kde-i10n*.
> 
> These virtual provides should be there for any langpack that exists. I
> suppose I should write an official packaging guideline for this.

That would be great, I think that this is a case where we can see the work 
that is intrinsic to the coordination effort of a linux distribution.

Thank you for your work on this feature.
 
> Bill

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José Abílio