vim: Needs gettext support

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

vim package has all translations (look at /usr/share/vim/vim63/lang/) instead of using langpacks

For example I use only en and lt (Lithuanian) languages and have only these langpacks installed, but at /usr/share/vim/vim63/lang/ I have 20 vim.mo files and more than 100 menu translation files !!!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Closing unnecessary 'Baltix' task.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

I reported this bug and added Baltix task, because I need to backport the fix to Baltix (which is still based on breezy) manually. Because of this I'm reopening Baltix task and assigning this task to myself.
P.S. I'm main Baltix GNU/Linux distribution developer :)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hi Mantas,

Mantas Kriaučiūnas [2006-04-04 12:19 -0000]:
> I reported this bug and added Baltix task, because I need to backport the fix to Baltix (which is still based on breezy) manually. Because of this I'm reopening Baltix task and assigning this task to myself.
> P.S. I'm main Baltix GNU/Linux distribution developer :)

Ah, sorry for that. Thank you!

(We often get useless additional 'Ubuntu' tasks, which we have to
clean up.)

Martin

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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I'm afraid this isn't going to change, unless/until upstream switches to using standard gettext.

[David Planella (dpm)]

This is still the case today.

We ship translations in language packs, but if I'm not mistaken, they are not used (the ones in /usr/share/vim/vim$VERSION/lang/$LANG/LC_MESSAGES are). On my system:

/usr/share/locale-langpack/ca/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/af/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/ca/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/cs/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/de/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/eo/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
[...]

I think until upstream starts using standard gettext we should disable the vim translation template from Launchpad and not include it in language packs.