Probably the import process blew up again. The basic issue is that nowadays the Packages files don't contain the complete descriptions anymore, you need to combine them with the Translation-en file. The import code was hacked to make it work and sometimes it blows up and you get this.
I'll try to remove the excess in the coming days... On 31 October 2013 20:34, Beatrice Torracca <beatri...@libero.it> wrote: > Hi all! > > In the Italian team we noticed a strange behaviour with the descriptions > that are being queued for re-translation. > > It seems that 2 new descriptions get created, one after the other > (description numbers are subsequent). One > with only the short description and one complete. > > When we get the description to retranslate, the diff becomes useless > because it is a diff of the "new" version compared to the "new empty" one, > not > the old one. > > To give some clues, an example: > > package: sylpheed-i18n > > you can see in the following page, 2 descriptions were created today: > 216295 216296 > > http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?package=sylpheed-i18n > > 216925 is empty except for the short description and thus considered > already translated > > the diff is basically useless since it shows all description as new, > > http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?diff1=216295&diff2=216296&language=it > > but actually only the list of languages within is changed. > > > This is overall not a huge problem, not even a big problem, so it's > probably not worth doing a lot of work just for it, but I am more > puzzled about the strange behavior and the chance that it might be a > symptom of something not working properly in the system, that is all. > > So feel free to dismiss this issue if it is just about missing diffs. > > Thanks, > beatrice. > > P.S.: we also have 2 packages behaving strangely, but I don't think the > things are related: > http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/it/translate/youtube-dl > http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/it/translate/librd-ruby1.8 > -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
