tags 407215 + moreinfo thanks. >>>>> fant == Frank Küster [2007-1-17]
fant> Thomas Huriaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The main problem with this bug is that it forces translators to >> understand your build system if they want to check their PO files. I'd like to know what exactly do translators need to check their new PO files. Please, Thomas, I'd ask you to describe what you usually do when you add a new po file to a package and what you would like the build system to do for you. While you answer, please, do not assume that every package maintainer should act the way most of them do, just state what's your customary way to work as a translator (if it helps you, give me a list of actions, like: I copy the "templates.pot" file to "<LANG>.po", translate it, then a issue a "debian/rules whatever" while pouring my cup of tee, ..., and so on, and so forth). >> course, it is not as problematic as I thought before. >> The other minor problem is that it gives false-positives in our i18n >> infrastructure :-) >> (see http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/errors-by-pkg) I think you should follow lintian example and allow maintainers to override the result of your checks if needed. Nobody knows better than the maintainer (with the help of bug submitters) if the package is right. fant> Hm, currently we don't really use eperl's magic when generating fant> templates. We used to, and the infrastructure is there because we could use it again in the future (it's handy). fant> I don't remember how it was used in other versions (this has been fant> done by Davide), but the problem is that if templates.in contains fant> some eperl code, either debconf-updatepo might fail on that, or fant> (even worse) it would extract text that is not supposed to be in fant> templates, but stripped by eperl (maybe conditionally). debconf-updatepo is not supposed to work on "templates.in" files, just on "templates". fant> Davide, what do you think? I'd like to wait until I understand better translators needs before adding more comments. -- Ciao, Davide
