Re: Translations and changelogs
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:35:32PM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:07:30PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
[...]
> > Moreover PO files may be changed without modification of PO-Revision-Date,
> > so this does not seem to be robust.
>
> They _may_ be changed without updating the revision date, but shouldn't
> be.
Right, so the 'translators must update debian/changelog' rule may be
replaced by 'translators must update PO-Revision-Date'.
> The only case when the PO-Revision-Date is not changed and which is
> ok this way is when the .po-files get msgmerged with updated templates.
>
> So, do you say hereby, that this functionality is not needed at all?
Not at all, I am just trying to evaluate its drawbacks. If all PO files
were gathered into a single place as described at the bottom of
http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2004/debian-i18n-200401/msg00061.html
requiring updates of debian/changelog files would not make sense, so
your script might be very helpful then.
As Steve Langasek told in another thread, you have to balance workload
of translators and maintainers. Maybe someone has to write another
script to report changes within packages in subdirectories since the
last upload, including a) new changelog entries and b) updated PO files.
If you do not make maintainers' life harder, they should have no reason
to refuse to switch to another scheme.
Denis
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