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Could it be a possibility that the package is only an installer which
downloads the manual from the website, similar to the
flashplugin-installer etc. With the help from dpkg-reconfigure on could
even change the language :)

Am 09.07.2013 13:06, schrieb Patrick Dickey:
> 
> That's what I was referring to also. For most applications, it downloads
> the application in your specific language (at least that's the
> assumption I have). I guess my question was, since we'll be packaging it
> (and possibly hosting a PPA for the manual), can we set it up so the
> user downloads in their specific language, or do we have to continue to
> create a separate package for each language supported?
> 
> Have a great day.:)
> Patrick.
> 
> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 01:40 -0500, Kevin Godby wrote: 
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn
>> <lafeber-dumoleyn2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Perhaps we are talking about 2 different things here.
>>> 1. the English pdf + translated pdf files that can be downloaded from our
>>> website separately
>>> 2. the pdf files (English + completed translations) added to the USC
>>> In the second situation we might try to get both English and translated
>>> versions accepted in one go (one package?)
>>
>> I'm talking about #2.
>>
>> If I can only read Dutch, then I'd rather download the
>> ubuntu-manual-nl package instead of an ubuntu-manual package that
>> contains half a dozen manuals I can't read. Smaller packages, less
>> disk space, faster download time, etc.
>>
>> —Kevin
>>
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