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  • Help to know if a package is valid

    From braulio@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 5 21:00:01 2022
    Good afternoon.

    I need help with a situation. I packaged a program under the GPL-3+ license where Upstream wrote all the texts in its native language Pt-Br, and for the packaging, I did all the translation to English, creating a directory 'debian/locale/en' with your
    required files for the translation as the 'manual', 'README', example and strings of the --help command. I would like to know if my package is valid, since I didn't find any kind of content in Debian Policy.

    Below is a link to the packaging in my salsa for further clarification. https://salsa.debian.org/braulio/md2term

    Sincerely,
    --
    Braulio H. M. Souto
    E-mail:braulio@disroot.org / XMPP:braulio@suchat.org
    FB39 DE61 869F 49D5 CCC8 3AE0 D53A 15D9 83A1 0B94

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  • From braulio@21:1/5 to braulio on Wed Aug 17 04:10:01 2022
    On 22/08/05 15:36, braulio wrote:
    Good afternoon.

    I need help with a situation. I packaged a program under the GPL-3+ license where Upstream wrote all the texts in its native language Pt-Br, and for the packaging, I did all the translation to English, creating a directory 'debian/locale/en' with your
    required files for the translation as the 'manual', 'README', example and strings of the --help command. I would like to know if my package is valid, since I didn't find any kind of content in Debian Policy.

    Below is a link to the packaging in my salsa for further clarification. https://salsa.debian.org/braulio/md2term

    Sincerely,
    --
    Braulio H. M. Souto
    E-mail:braulio@disroot.org / XMPP:braulio@suchat.org
    FB39 DE61 869F 49D5 CCC8 3AE0 D53A 15D9 83A1 0B94


    After a few days the package was uploaded to the NEW queue and a few days later it was approved by the FTP Master, so it is possible to have such a package in Debian.

    --
    Braulio H. M. Souto
    E-mail:braulio@disroot.org / XMPP:braulio@suchat.org
    FB39 DE61 869F 49D5 CCC8 3AE0 D53A 15D9 83A1 0B94

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  • From Lucas Castro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 21:40:01 2022
    Em 16/08/2022 22:50, braulio escreveu:
    On 22/08/05 15:36, braulio wrote:
    Good afternoon.

    I need help with a situation. I packaged a program under the GPL-3+ license where Upstream wrote all the texts in its native language Pt-Br, and for the packaging, I did all the translation to English, creating a directory 'debian/locale/en' with your
    required files for the translation as the 'manual', 'README', example and strings of the --help command. I would like to know if my package is valid, since I didn't find any kind of content in Debian Policy.

    I guess any changes to upstream must be implements along with patch and

    anything under debian/ must be related to debian package only.

    So shouldn't debian/locale/ be related locate of debian package itself?






    Below is a link to the packaging in my salsa for further clarification.
    https://salsa.debian.org/braulio/md2term

    Sincerely,
    --
    Braulio H. M. Souto
    E-mail:braulio@disroot.org / XMPP:braulio@suchat.org
    FB39 DE61 869F 49D5 CCC8 3AE0 D53A 15D9 83A1 0B94

    After a few days the package was uploaded to the NEW queue and a few days later it was approved by the FTP Master, so it is possible to have such a package in Debian.


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  • From Eriberto@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 22:10:02 2022
    Em sex., 19 de ago. de 2022 às 16:38, Lucas Castro
    <lucas@gnuabordo.com.br> escreveu:


    Em 16/08/2022 22:50, braulio escreveu:
    On 22/08/05 15:36, braulio wrote:
    Good afternoon.

    I need help with a situation. I packaged a program under the GPL-3+ license where Upstream wrote all the texts in its native language Pt-Br, and for the packaging, I did all the translation to English, creating a directory 'debian/locale/en' with
    your required files for the translation as the 'manual', 'README', example and strings of the --help command. I would like to know if my package is valid, since I didn't find any kind of content in Debian Policy.

    I guess any changes to upstream must be implements along with patch and

    anything under debian/ must be related to debian package only.

    So shouldn't debian/locale/ be related locate of debian package itself?

    No. Similarly, you could provide a manpage or sources[1] via debian/.
    IMO, it is not a good practice to generate new files in upstream place
    via patches.

    [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#missing-sources-debian-missing-sources

    Eriberto

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