Is there a way to provide localized versions of the Debian packaging control files (changelog, control and copyright for example) ?
Is there a way to provide localized versions of the Debian packaging control files
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Is there a way to provide localized versions of the Debian packaging control files (changelog, control and copyright for example) ?
The format is laid down in the Debian Policy Manual, chapters 4 and 5. I don’t see any provision for localisation. I suspect this is because
controlandchangelogare heavily machine-parsed; allowing the field names to change risks vastly overcomplicating the mechanisms which deal with them. It is a bad idea to localisecopyrightbecause that is supposed to be a verbatim copy of the upstream package’s copyright declaration: also, being a legal document, translating it is risky.Besides, most users never see these files. Why do you want to localise them?