[maemo-developers] Adding locales via Extras

[From: Niels Breet]

[resending as mail bounced, lists should be fixed now btw]
[Adding -developers]
On Tue, December 30, 2008 17:05, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:46:21 +0200 (CEST), Niels Breet wrote:
>
>> It seems that you are the owner of a repository with some packages not
>> available in Extras. Is there a possibility for you to move all useful
>> packages to Extras and shut your own one down?
>
> Done for chinook and diablo, component "main". All packages moved,
> repositories deleted.
>

Thanks for the effort!

>> If you need any help with packages that need to brought over to Extras,
>>  please let me know. We will gladly help you with problematic packages.
>>
>
> I still have a separate component "czech". It contains only one package,
> posix-locales-cz
> (http://upir.cz/maemo/dists/diablo/czech/source/posix-locales-cz_2.5.0-1o
> sso1.tar.gz).
>
> The package adds a Czech locale support. But it's quite hackish, as a
> locale cannot be just added - all of the installed locales have to be
> replaced to achieve that. Thus, although it is just recompiled Nokia
> posix-locales package, it has intentionally a different name and replaces
>  the original locales in its post-install script.
>
> I know, that's ugly. The question is - is that suitable for Extras? As it
>  is named differently than the original posix-locales package, it won't
> be considered as an update to posix-locales, so it shouldn't cause any
> problems for those who haven't installed posix-locales-cz.
>
> On the other hand, I don't know what will happen for those with
> posix-locales-cz installed if Nokia decides to update posix-locales. It may
> or may not work. It could probably be "fixed" by some deb dependencies
> magic but I'm not skillful enough in that and don't think it's worth the
> effort.
>

I would like to hear from other community developers what they have done
to solve this problem? Did you also have to hijack the package or is there
a clean way in doing this?

It seems that replacing the original locales with your locales in a post
install script is a bit evil and ugly. One shouldn't have to do that.

And what if I want to add another locale? I think this is really where
things start to fall apart.

> Thanks for your opinions :-)
>

I am not afraid to say: "I don't know" :)


>
> Jiri
>
>
> --
> Jiri Benc
> http://upir.cz/maemo
>
>

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