r351: * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template

     files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
     debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.

3 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 31dde712..10091298 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
+    files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
+    debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
+
 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
diff --git a/dh_installdebconf b/dh_installdebconf
index 03ac2357..82d69d01 100755
--- a/dh_installdebconf
+++ b/dh_installdebconf
@@ -20,8 +20,17 @@ foreach $PACKAGE (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 	}
 	
 	if ($templates ne '') {
-		doit("install", "-o", "root", "-g", "root", "-m", 644, "-p",
-		     $templates, "$TMP/DEBIAN/templates");
+		# Are there translated templates too?
+		my @trans=glob("$templates.??");
+		if (@trans) {
+			complex_doit("debconf-mergetemplate @trans $templates > $TMP/DEBIAN/templates");
+			chmod 0644, "$TMP/DEBIAN/templates";
+			chown 0, 0, "$TMP/DEBIAN/templates";
+		}
+		else {
+			doit("install", "-o", "root", "-g", "root", "-m", 644, "-p",
+			     $templates, "$TMP/DEBIAN/templates");
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (($config ne ''|| $templates ne '') && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
diff --git a/dh_installdebconf.1 b/dh_installdebconf.1
index 176d61aa..b423679c 100644
--- a/dh_installdebconf.1
+++ b/dh_installdebconf.1
@@ -20,6 +20,23 @@ For the first first binary package listed in the control file, you may use
 debian/config and debian/templates instead.
 .P
 Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it.
+.SH "LOCALIZED TEMPLATE FILES"
+Debconf also supports localized template files, and this program has some
+support to aid working with them. You may find it easiest to keep the
+translations in separate files, and merge them only at build time. See
+.BR debconf-mergetemplate (1)
+for details.
+.P
+This program will automatically call 
+.BR debconf-mergetemplate (1)
+and merge templates on the fly if it finds your template files are accompnied
+by translated files that have the same name as the template file, with a
+dot and two letters prepended.
+.P
+For example, if you have a German translation,
+debian/templates.de is merged with debian/templates.
+.P
+If you use this feature, your package should build-depend on debconf-utils.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B debhelper options