Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-15 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ian, On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:01:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more > messages] [and 1 more messages]"): > The manpage suggests that it will attach the .pot files. > > | podebconf-repo

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]"): > Unless you intend a huge rework of strings (e.g. changing the style or > markup or tone or something) I would use podebconf-report-po(1) (yes, > this can be used

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-13 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ian, On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:10:37AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more > messages]"): > > > I will add something to the README about committing the translation > > > and using salsa to

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]"): > As you give good guidenance like providing the original term alongside > the translated one, i completely agree in your case. This eases the > burden for translators also, as they kno

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-08 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ian, full quote, as i acidentially dropped the list. On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 06:07:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more > messages]"): > > Hello Ian, > > > This is now done. The update

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-06 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ian, On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 06:51:49PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more > messages]"): > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > Giving context informa

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]"): > I'm still working on marking up git-debrebase for message translation, > and haven't done anything about the docs. When I have done those > things, and subject to any review com

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]"): > Hello Ian, > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Giving context information to translators is always good. You can add > > > annotations v

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks for your helpful comments earlier. I have now done much of the work to do message translation for the dgit package. The results are now in experimental, and can be found here: https://browse.dgit.debian.org/dgit.git/tree/?h=debian/7.0_pre1 or with `dgit clone dgit experimental'. I'm sti

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-09-17 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ian, On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc."): > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > 3. I am not sure how to divide up my translation inputs (

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc. [and 1 more messages]

2018-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Helge Kreutzmann writes ("Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc."): > answering at least partially from a translators and package > maintainers view Thanks for all the helpful advice. Most of it I will simply take on board and implement, so I have snipped those parts of this m

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc.

2018-09-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ian, answering at least partially from a translators and package maintainers view, who also i18n his programm (albeit on a much smaller scale). On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Hi. I hope this is a suitable list for my question. If not, please > direct me else

Re: advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc.

2018-09-12 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Ian Jackson wrote: [just answering one of your questions] 6. Committing the .pot file You can't expect translators to be ready to run any commands (or even to have the required tools installed) to generate the .pot file(s). But it is still (in my opinion) a bad idea to commit the .pot file.

advice on po/pot/po4a layout etc.

2018-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi. I hope this is a suitable list for my question. If not, please direct me elsewhere... I am doing the i18n for a package (src:dgit) which I think it will be useful to translate (at least, much of it). It's a Debian native package containing mostly perl scripts. I'm not sure of the best app