Subject: Questions about a locale Debian package...

From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 22:21 MET DST

I try to study a Debian package for locale...
Is there somebody working on the subject?

I have severals questions...

First, what must we put in this package?
	- the character map definition files? (2742Ko)
		(maybe only ISO* charmap? (433Ko))
	- the source collection of locale definition files? (1533Ko)
	- the compiled collection of locale definition files...? yes, of course! (495Ko) 
	(languages supported are:
da_DK,de_AT,de_BE,de_CH,de_DE,de_LU,en_CA,en_DK,en_GB,en_IE,en_US,es_ES,et_EE,
fi_FI,fo_FO,fr_BE,fr_CA,fr_FR,fr_CH,fr_LU,gr_GR,hr_HR,hu_HU,is_IS,it_IT,iw_IL,
kl_GL,lt_LT,lv_LV,nl_BE,nl_NL,no_NO,pl_PL,pt_PT,ro_RO,ru_RU,sl_SI,sv_FI,sv_SE    )		

Second, I've not seen lot's of things in the fsstnd-1.2 about
locale... I suggest these paths
	- charmap:		/usr/share/nls/charmap 
	- locales source:	/usr/share/nls/locale 
	- locales compiled:	/usr/lib/locale or /usr/share/locale?

Indeed, we may use "/usr/lib/locale" for the compiled locales
but we must then modify libc5... libc5 is just looking in the
/usr/share/locale directory.

Last, I use the WG15-collection.tar collected by Keld Simonsen ([email-masked])
from the DKUUG on behalf of the ISO POSIX WG, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15.

I think we should use something like "WG15.??" for the original version and
"locale" for the package name. But i haven't seen anything to ordering
the version number... no special date, no special number... Any idea?

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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:45:38 +0200 (MET DST)

> /usr/share/locale directory.

Please don't do this if you don't really have to. I'd prefer to make as few
changes as possible to the library itself. If it has to be in
/usr/lib/locale H.J. should change his upstream code.

> from the DKUUG on behalf of the ISO POSIX WG, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15.

Isn't the original site for the WG15-collection 
ftp://i44s10.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/ctype?

> the version number... no special date, no special number... Any idea?

I'd prefer to name it wg15locale or somesuch.

Michael

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From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 01:37 MET DST

> /usr/lib/locale H.J. should change his upstream code.
 
 Ok, I've uploaded an alpha locale package in my directory on master...
 I use /usr/share/locale...
 But it's inconsistent with the base package which provide
 a empty /usr/lib/locale/en_GB directory...

 > ftp://i44s10.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/ctype?

 I think ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection is the original site for the
 WG15-collection... But original "archive" WG15-collection.linux.tar.gz
 is from ftp://i44s10.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/ctype. I'm not sure.
 
 > I'd prefer to name it wg15locale or somesuch.
 
 or maybe localewg15, like libc5?