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

From: Andre Klapper aklapper at openismus.com
Date: Mon Jan 4 18:24:54 EET 2010
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 16:51 +0100 schrieb Cornelius Hald:
> 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 ....
> 
> But after sending it through the autobuilder the binary package only has
> only one "Description" line left. And that's the default one without
> language code.
> 
> [1] http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html

Note that there is a bug about Application Manager at
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6757 .

andre

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Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)

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