Debian-Project - Release Goals for Version 2.1

Internationalization

This has been proposed by Thimo Neubauer.

We could start to allow multi-language descriptions in the control-files. This gives many mantainers the opportunity to add descriptions in all languages they know. The form could be something like:

Description: <normal english description>
 <more description>
Description[de]: <german description>
 <more german description>

A form like this could be used to collect non-english descriptions, but we don't need to use them now. The script for creating Packages.gz could weed out the non-english descriptions so that no harm is done[1]. Maybe Debian 4.0 will have a Packages.gz for every supported language, who knows. This is of no importance right now.

We could start the multi-language-business right now before we have to translate 2000+ package-descriptions in 3 months (between two releases), perhaps crossing one or more deadlines.