[Fedora-packaging] Two different locale names in one package?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 05:29:15 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:13 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> A few days ago I've taken over the package kerry due to AWOL of the
> former maintainer. Today I've tried to package the new version of
> kerry. But I've encountered a problem: The new package contains two
> different named locale files: kerry.mo and kcmbeagle.mo. In one package
> I could only use one %find_lang.
> One solution could be to split up the package. That's what I have done
> for now (kerry and kerry-kcontrol). But the normal package would miss
> some features when not installing the sub-package. But I don't think a
> require for kerry-kcontrol in kerry itself would be a good idea.
> 
> What would be the best solution in this situation? Really splitting up
> the package? And if so, also putting a require for kerry-kcontrol in
> kerry? Or is there an option for %find_lang I don't know?
> 

You can look at how the gtk2 package solves the same problem:

%find_lang gtk20
%find_lang gtk20-properties
cat gtk20.lang gtk20-properties.lang > all.lang






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