#647021 iso-codes: Provide a trigger for translation updates

Package:
iso-codes
Source:
iso-codes
Submitter:
Date:
2011-10-30 17:33:09 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#647021#5
Date:
2011-10-29 14:01:19 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I'm maintaining python-django-countries, a small package providing
country selection fields for the Django framework.
I patche upstream source to use the XML files provided by iso-codes to
create to value lists for the selections.
To provide translation through Django I18N I have to provide the gettext
binary files as "django.mo". My next packaging release of
python-django-countries would create a symlink farm, symlinking
/usr/share/locale/XY/LC_MESSAGES/iso_3166.mo
to
/usr/share/pyshared/django_countries/locale/XY/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo

It would be nice to have a trigger activated by iso-codes to keep the
symlinks in sync with the translations. You could include the trigger
like this:

echo activate iso-codes-translation-update >>debian/iso-codes.triggers

Thanks,
Michael Fladischer


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

iso-codes depends on no packages.

iso-codes recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iso-codes suggests:
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#647021#10
Date:
2011-10-30 16:50:36 UTC
From:
To:
Am 29.10.2011 16:01, schrieb FladischerMichael@fladi.at:

Hi Michael,

I'm not opposed to using triggers in iso-codes, if that helps you.
However, I have not understood why this is necessary. If you create
those symlinks, they would always point to the latest version of
iso-codes, wouldn't they? That is, when the next iso-codes version
replaces a translation with an update, the symlink would automatically
use that new translation without interaction.

Regards,
Tobias
#647021#15
Date:
2011-10-30 17:06:22 UTC
From:
To:
Tobias Quathamer, 10/30/2011 05:50 PM:

That's correct. But if a new translation is included, my package would
not get notified. With the trigger activated by iso-codes, my postinst
will recreate the symlinks, including all newly added translations from
iso-codes.

Cheers,