[maemo-developers] Translating "Description" field in debian/control

[From: Anderson Lizardo]

2010/1/4 Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to provide a localized package description in debian/control.
> I was finding this[1] document. Is it still valid? Because somehow it's
> not working. (Only tested with Fremantle)
>
> It looks like something strips out the additional fields. E.g. in my
> original control file I have lines like:
> Description-de_DE: German description here
> Description-fi_FI: Finish description ....

On the document you sent the URL, it says:

"The way to get these fields into your .deb files is to include them
with a XB- prefix in your debian/control file, see the Debian Policy
Manual, section 5.7."

So I *think* (I never tried), that you should use:

XB-Description-de_DE
XB-Description-fi_FI

and so on. The "XB-" prefix will be removed automatically by dpkg-gencontrol.

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo
OpenBossa Labs - INdT
Manaus - Brazil