Packages using debconf must support internationalization

Packages that follow the Debian Configuration management specification
must support internationalization by using a gettext-based system such
as po-debconf.

git-archimport-id: rra@debian.org--lenny/debian-policy--devel--3.7--patch-16

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0a6f506835035b81e68c494c6fb9c182a0535986..0aa15c95444d6c5188de159265b013dc505b2d62 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ debian-policy (3.7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     list?"                                                   (Closes: #412634).
   * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
     files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog          (Closes: #363133).
+  * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
+    templates", thanks to Christian Perrier                  (Closes: #402975).
   
  --
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 702247f051d95e58427da708f51fa9eb06a904e9..2e8fdd19c9b1a0c4e68f397b1937603371a2961b 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1220,6 +1220,13 @@
            </footnote>
          </p>
 
+         <p>
+           Packages which use the Debian Configuration management
+           specification must allow for translation of their messages
+           by using a gettext-based system such as the one provided by
+           the <package>po-debconf</package> package.
+         </p>
+
          <p>
            Packages should try to minimize the amount of prompting
            they need to do, and they should ensure that the user

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.html b/upgrading-checklist.html
index 24378fbfa078d6812ab4b1c67762777b35f44d70..f66adf39dc5cda818b7785f57aaed0418932fffc 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.html
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.html
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ picking your way through this list.
        type of package for which the line is valid.  The only currently
        supported type is udeb, used with packages for the Debian
        Installer.                                                [8.6]
+     * Packages following the Debian Configuration management
+       specification must allow for translation of their messages by using
+       a gettext-based system such as po-debconf.                [3.9.1]
 3.7.2.2                        Oct 2006
      * Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
        should to a must)                                         [6.1]