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TDeb Specification

Abstract

This document provides an overview of the TDeb format, TDeb design and usage. This specification should be considered as a work in progress. Online version: http://people.debian.org /~codehelp/tdeb Source SGML: /~codehelp/tdeb/Draft.sgml

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2008 Neil Williams codehelp@debian.org, Joerg Jaspert joerg@debian.org, Mark Hymers mhy@debian.org, Frank Lichtenheld djpig@debian.org, partially based on dpkg man pages, © by the original authors.

This document is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license.

Contents

• 1 Format of binary translation packages (tdeb)
  • 1.1 Summary
  • 1.2 Locale-root members
  • 1.3 Use of the .tdeb suffix
  • 1.4 Format specification
• 2 Source format
  • 2.1 +t1.diff.gz
• 3 TDeb contents
  • 3.1 What goes into a TDeb?
• 4 TDeb uploads
  • 4.1 Initial uploads - +t0
  • 4.2 Translator updates
  • 4.3 dpkg source formats
• 5 TDeb resources.
  • 5.1 Packages and patches
• 6 TDeb Architectures
  • 6.1 TDebs are architecture-independent
• 7 TDebs and LINGUAS
  • 7.1 Avoiding changes to the source package
  • 7.2 TDebs and binary packages
  • 7.3 Migrating packages to TDeb support
• 8 Resolution of corner cases
  • 8.1 TDeb documentation duplication
  • 8.2 TDebs and package managers
  • 8.3 TDebs and debconf
  • 8.4 TDebs and multiple templates files
  • 8.5 Tdebs and usr/share/doc
• 9 Lintian support
  • 9.1 PO translations
  • 9.2 TDeb maintainers
• 10 TDeb implementation
  • 10.1 What needs to be done and when?
  • 10.2 Incorporation of the tdiff in the next source package
  • 10.3 L10N Infrastructure
• 11 Timeline
  • 11.1 Sequence
  • 11.2 What needs to be done for Wheezy?

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TDeb Specification