[maemo-developers] Maemo-extras and translations

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Andrew Zabolotny" <zap at homelink.ru> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Recently doing an 'apt-get update' I noticed this:
>
> Ign http://repository.maemo.org diablo/free Translation-ru
> Ign http://repository.maemo.org diablo/non-free Translation-ru
> Ign http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com diablo/user
> Translation-ru
>
> this looks like an interesting feature (e.g. look at the lot of xchat
> translations - all in the main repository). Is this a standard apt
> feature, or it's some improvement by Nokia?

It's standard apt.  I don't think we have the tools in place to actually
put Translation files into the repositories, but once we do, apt-get
should do something with it on the device.  More polish will likely be
needed to make it do something _useful_ with the translations, like
showing them in Application manager.

> Also, is it possible to use this feature in Maemo-extras?

Right now, you can translate your package descriptions etc within your
control file like so:

    Description-ru_RU: ...

See here for more information, "Localized names and descriptions":

    http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html