[Fedora-packaging] localizing spec summary ?

[Mario Blättermann]

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }Hi Erik,



Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 14:58 -0500 schrieb Erik Blankinship:
> Where can I find documentation on how to localize the strings in my
> spec file, specifically Summary: ?
> 
> from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo
> Summary: A brief, one-line summary of the package. Use American
> English, and do not end in a period.
> 
This is less documented. However, there's a short hint in the Mandriva wiki:



http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Charset#Why.3F



I've used it in my packages:



http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19373040/Fedora/SPECS/cputnik.spec



It works fine, gnome-packagekit shows the translated versions.



I hope we will have a translation routine for package summaries and descriptions in the future, as known from other distributions, such as Ubuntu or Mandriva. To setup a working installation on Koji is difficult, I'm sure. But the translations itself could be reused from the mentioned distributions.



Best Regards,
Mario