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Re: Is it time to abandon Dpkg?

From: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
> Absolutely.  The tools [to localize dpkg/dselect] exist to do this--GNU
> gettext seems stable
> enough, and several of our base utilities already use this for
> internationalization.  Why not apply this to dselect, and even
> dpkg?  Surely we have many international debian users who would
> feel honored to invest the blood, sweat, tears, and hours of
> thankless labor necessary to make translations... :)

OK, someone please step up and say "I'm going to do this", and then do it.
The projects we need done to keep dpkg/dselect viable are:

1. Separate the dselect back-end into a shared library and document its
   interface. Make dselect work with it.

2. Localize dpkg and dselect.

3. Write a new front-end.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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