El dilluns, 20 de juny de 2016, a les 0:50:12 CEST, Luigi Toscano va escriure:
> Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> > El divendres, 17 de juny de 2016, a les 12:30:00 CEST, Luigi Toscano va
> >
> > escriure:
> >> On Friday 17 of June 2016 12:10:41 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> PROBLEM: garbage po and mo files in packages
> >>>
> >>> currently many of the scripts used for creating release tarballs of KDE
> >>> software accidentally also add those po files to the tarballs whose
> >>> translations are already fed back directly into the sources by scripty
> >>> (with data files like appdata, desktop, json, or mimetype.xml). So
> >>> strings which will never be loaded from an external mo or qm catalog.
> >>>
> >>> Those po files then also end up in the binary packages as mo files given
> >>> the generic handling of po files during builds. Do this to see how much
> >>> of those unneeded mo files you might have yourself on your system:
> >>>
> >>> du -ch `find /usr/share/locale \
> >>>
> >>> -name "*appdata.mo" -o \
> >>> -name "*mimetypes.mo" -o \
> >>> -name "desktop_*.mo" -o \
> >>> -name "json_*.mo"`
> >>>
> >>> which for me reports in total 43M.
> >>>
> >>> find ... | wc -l
> >>>
> >>> is 186 here.
> >>>
> >>> Problem is that many people are not aware of all the different data file
> >>> types which scripty cares for, and i18n in general is more seen as
> >>> "magic
> >>> which just works (mostly)" (well, shows the great work of the KDE i18n
> >>> team
> >>>
> >>> :) ). And the number of such file types is rising now and then, just all
> >>>
> >>> the different release scripts ("official" and home-grown) are not
> >>> keeping
> >>> up.
> >>
> >> If someone writes a new release script, then the issues and requirements
> >> should be known.
> >>
> >> I still fail to see why we need tons of release scripts. Let's fix the 3
> >> more used (sysadmin/release-tools.git for Frameworks and Applications,
> >> releaseme for Plasma and others, and create_tarball_kf5) and make sure
> >> that
> >> people are using them instead of reinventing the wheel.
> >
> > How do you fix them though, i just had a look at what we do in the
> > Applications script and we just delete all files named desktop_*
> >
> > Which i guess up to now is good enough but i would sayi it's impossible
> > for
> > Plasma to ever come up with a name for a catalog named
> > "desktop_controller" or something.
> >
> > If we increase those catch all we'll eventually end up hitting one that
> > matches and have a hard time figuring out why it broke.
> >
> > Maybe one of the ways to fix this is "fordidding" non autogenerated names
> > to have an underscore?
>
> In another (now stuck) thread ("Renaming desktop_<module>_<program>.po
> file"), where we were discussing about the renaming json_foo.po and
> desktop_foo.po to foo.json.po and foo.desktop.po, a similar issue was
> raised.
>
> A possible solution would be to use a specific suffix which we could quite
> sure is not going to be taken by any other user. I don't know, something
> like .__desktop.po and __json.po ? Then we could use that pattern to catch
> all of those special gettext file.
That's doable and sensible.
Why is the other thread stuck?
Cheers,
Albert
>
> Ciao
