[Fedora-packaging] localizing spec summary ?

Sat Mar 12 09:25:05 UTC 2011

Hi Erik,

On Thursday, 10 March 2011 at 20:58, Erik Blankinship wrote:
> 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.

I don't have any links to documentation, but the syntax is:

Summary(lang_code):

and

%description -l lang_code

You can use lang_code.encoding, too, for example pl.UTF-8.
Some of the existing spec files use this syntax.

HTH

Regards,
Dominik

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