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6 debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files
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9 debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates
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12 Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-
13 debconf's po2debconf program.
14 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.
18 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.
24 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28 have in common should be superseded by the fields in the main file
29 (which might be more up-to-date).
30 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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35 --outdated
36 Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them
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38 --drop-old-templates
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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48 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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