UnitedLinux language-specific package description

Requirements

  1. Package
    The package identifier (nameversionrevisionarchitecture)
  2. Summary
    The package summary (aka 'Label'), a one-line description of the package
  3. Description
    The package description, a (possible) multi-line description of the package
  4. Installation notify
    An informal message to be shown to the user if the package is selected.
    (i.e. a 'test version, don't use' warning or a commercial license.
  5. Deletion notify
    An informal message to be shown to the user if the package is de-selected.
    (i.e. a 'your system will be unusable without this package' warning.

Implementation

In order to re-use existing code and infrastructure, the syntactic representation of the language file is identical to the packages file

File encoding is UTF-8.
File is line based.
Lines starting with '#' are ignored.

Header keywords

The language file starts with a header defining the version.
KeywordValueComment
=Ver2.0The old (<lang>.pkd) format was 1.1, this one is 2.0

The old Encoding tag is not needed any more since all translation have to be UTF-8 encoded now.

Package entry keywords

KeywordValueComment
=Pkgname version release architectureThese four values identify a package unambiguously and are used as a key
=Sumsummaryone line summary (aka 'label')
+Des
-Des		descriptionmulti-line description
+Ins
-Ins		installation notifyUser notification when package is selected for installation
+Del
-Del		deletion notifyUser notification when package is selected for deletion
=Shrname version release architectureof another package.
All values not explicitly set in the current package entry are shared with the mentioned package.

Example

=Pkg: 3ddiag 0.494 16 i586
=Sum: Tool zur Überprüfung der 3D/OpenGL Konfiguration
+Des:
Mit dem Tool '3Ddiag' können Sie Ihre 3D/OpenGL Konfiguration überprüfen.
-Des: