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Re: fixing bad English in dbootstrap?



On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:40:33AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Would anyone mind if I changed the dbootstrap sources in order to fix broken
> > English? I'm referring to weird stuff like "make the device by hand",
> > "Bootstrap And Root Must Be on The Same Disk", "Basedebs", "Can't mkdir",
> > "Can't copy. Stop", "Now insert a floppy disk in /dev/fd0"... lots of
> > fairly incoherent phrases there.
> 
> Please do.
> 
> Note that this will require you run 'make clean; make update-po' in
> the po subdir there and commit all that.

Okay.

> Also, it will sometimes break the documentation build, it's best to
> test that, although optional.

Well, the documentation build for hr and probably other outdated languages
is broken, since there are 272 KB of diffs... :(

> > Also, grep -A1 msgid\ \"C\" *.po shows some inconsistency.
> 
> Hmm.  Doesn't 'make update-po' deal with that?

I just grepped the checked out stuff...

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