Re: New external dependency: iso-codes ?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

ÎÏÎÏ 07/ÎÎÏ/2005, ÎÎÎÏÎ ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ ÎÎÎ ÏÏÎ 20:15, Î/Î Christian Persch
ÎÎÏÎÏÎ:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to add a new external dependency to GNOME Desktop: the
> "iso-codes" package. It's available from cvs
> [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-isocodes/] and tarball
> [http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/iso-codes-0.45.tar.gz].
> 
> Using this package will remove the duplicated translations of language
> and country names from GNOME programs. Epiphany and Galeon already have
> support for iso-codes (optional dependency atm), and there's a bug with
> patch to make gedit's spell-check using it too
> [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150535].
> 
> If nobody objects, I'm going to go ahead and make it a hard dependency
> for Epiphany, and add the module to the gnome-2.12 jhbuild moduleset.

The ISO codes package is being translated under the Translation Project
(http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/index.html)
and listed at 
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?domain=index
See the isoXXXX translation domains in the middle of the page.

The relation between the two (Translation Project and iso-codes) is that
the former is higher upstream. Translators deal with the Translation
Project and regularly the guy from Debian makes a release of the
translations. Is that correct?

Another package from the Translation Project, xkeyboard-config is used
by gswitchit, the keyboard switching tool in GNOME, to provide the names
of the keyboards in the local language. I am not sure if such a
dependancy exists already. 
Sergey (author of gswitchit)?

It looks more canonical to me to make the dependancy to the Translation
Project.

Simos