[Digikam-devel] Proposal: Split docs into seperate tarballs for each language

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 14:22, Sero wrote:
> Dear digikam team,
> 
> the digikam 0.9 release is quite close now with the beta1 out so I think it is 
> time to discuss one point regarding packaging of the final releases.
> 
> Background: I use Gentoo Linux (Distro that build everything from the source 
> tarballs instead of using rpms or debs). For the docs that came with digikam 
> 0.8.2 one Gentoo dev decided to split the huge tarball for the docs into 
> seperate tarballs for every LANG, e.g. digikam-docs-DE.tar.bz2 etc.
> 
> This is great for people like me with slow/expansive internet connection but 
> it has the disadvantage off needing additional webspace for the Gentoo people 
> to host the slit tarballs and it is duplicated work somehow.
> 
> I generaly do not like when distros differ to much from upstream so my wish is 
> to find a solution for the problem upstream. Can you provide splitted  doc 
> tarballs for every language with the 0.9 release?
> 
> I see three possible problems here: 
> 1. Someone has to adjust the ruby scripts in SVN that are used for the tarball 
> generation.

Finding the 'someone' is the biggest problem :(

> 2. I don't know whether this splitting is agains a KDE guide line - if so I 
> don't know if you are willing to break such a guide line (should be possible 
> for an extragear app, no?).

No policy problem AFAIK.  koffice does it already.

> 3. The proposed change in tarball creation would need some testing with an 
> aditional betaX release and possibly delay the shipping of the final 0.9 
> release a little.

App and doc tarball release date are not strictly coupled.  We are free
to release seperately if digikam is ready but docs are not.

Achim
> 
> All in all I think it's nonetheless a good thing (TM) and not only Gentoo 
> Packagers would be happy.
> 
> Your comments please!
> 
> Regards,
> Sero
> 
> P.S. I will provide Gentoo ebuilds for the beta1, soon! Stay tuned ... 
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