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NAME

6       debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files
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SYNOPSIS

9        debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates
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DESCRIPTION

12       Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-
13       debconf's po2debconf program.
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15       This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files
16       which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified
17       files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output.
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19       This can be especially useful if you are dealing with translated
20       template files. In this case, you might have your main template file,
21       plus several other files provided by the translators. These files will
22       have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the
23       english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference.
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25       So, you want to merge together all the translated templates files with
26       your main templates file. Any fields that are unique to the translated
27       files need to be added in to the correct templates, but any fields they
28       have in common should be superseded by the fields in the main file
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31       This program handles that case properly, just list each of the
32       translated templates files, and then your main templates file last.
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OPTIONS

35       --outdated
36           Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them
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40           If a translation has an entire template that is not in the master
41           file (and thus is probably an old template), drop that entire
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SEE ALSO

45       debconf-getlang(1)
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AUTHOR

48       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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