Re: Do not touch l10n files
On Wed, 14 May 2003 19:25:20 +0200, Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> said:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:22:36AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Silly? My, we must have a chip on our choulder. Equally silly as
>> non-maintainers having delusions of control over what gets shipped
>> with a package?
> Where did I say that? I am only requesting that developers who do
> not speak a given language do not edit their related l10n files, but
> ask first a trusted person fluent in this language if changes are
> needed.
This is no different from code: if I maintian software, and I
may not understand all the complexities of the package in question,
but when I think I discover a problem, I send a notice to the
upistream (coder, translator), and, if I am not fluenbt in the
language, I ask someone to help (who may not be the upstream
code/translator).
I then add a local patch correcting the issue until the matter
is resolved upstream.
This is a far cry from ``Do not touch l10n files''.
No one expects a maintainer to change code files either if
they result is incorrect; that is just a bug. But maintainers are not
admonished to never touch upstream files.
If ever a translation is included in my packages, I certainly
am not going to respect such a restriction against modifying files in
my package.
manoj
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