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Re: html tags fixing in english only VS l10n on www.debian.org



On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:40:22AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > The last change index.wml from the CVS archive:
> > > 
> > > -<hr>
> > > +<hr />
> > 
> > I would like to second this tension ...
> > 
> > So, to the people that fix html tags in the CVS :
> > * PLEASE DO IT WITH SMARTCHANGE OR BY HAND IN ALL OTHER LANGUAGES ! *
> 
> I wholeheartedly second this.
> 
> People who fiddle with HTML in sources of pages that are popular and widely
> translated really need to get a clue and stop creating more pointless work
> for others.
> 
> This is the latest commit that pissed me off:
> 
> http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/distrib/packages.wml?root=webwml&r1=1.65&r2=1.66&diff_format=h
> 
> This trend has been repeating itself for months. :(
> 
> Strolling through gobs of pointless diffs again and again is not in any way
> a pleasurable or useful activity.
> 
> If this persists, I'll seriously consider formally requesting that commit
> access is revoked for the wrongdoers. :|

Oh, wait, it got better...

http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/doc/index.wml?root=webwml&r1=1.85&r2=1.86&diff_format=h

The change is <hrline> to <hrline />. But, this tag is not even (X)HTML,
it's a WML tag we defined on our own, and it gets converted into another
tag by MWL, making this change completely and utterly useless.

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