Re: [i18n] aboot-installer now uses changelog-changes script
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:25:23PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > I think the logic is so simple, that if the translators update the
> > PO-Revision-Date and the maintainer of the package inserts a
> > correct revision date (both should be the case), then it will
> > definitely work. But, like I said, the script needs testing.
> Hmmm, what happens if translators update, then one templates is
> changed, debconf-updatepo is run (which changes PO-Revision-Date),
Are you sure? I have made a small test changing the date of the .pot
and running debconf-updatepo -- only the POT-Generation-Date has
changed, not the PO-Revision-Date.
> then another translators make updates? I fear that only the lastest
> translator changes will then appear.
Well, yes, it works this way. On the other hand, I don't really see a
solution at this point and frankly I have not seen a case yet where a
translation has been remarked in the changelog as a work of several
translators. It is mostly one person (a member of a team), who is
either "assigned" to a file or the one who has done a big chunk of
work on this particular file. Sharing the credit in other cases is
indeed a problem, but frankly, the current approach should be
sufficient in most cases, but don't take my opinion for granted,
you'll surely have a better overview.
(I've just come up with a possible solution: kind of "split" the
script in two parts: one which is run once before the release of the
package (dh_updatedtranslations or something ;)), which outputs the
final changelog and another part, which just logs the changes in some
file (a hash, '.trans_changelog_tracker) which could be run
automagically after debconf-updatepo. The first part of the script
would then just parse the hash and, if desired, delete it)
> Thus, for each debconf-updatepo run, we HAVE to run the script
> before, then update the changelog with its output. Will be hard to
> remember...:-)
It would be nice to be able to feed its output to dch, but I haven't
found a possibility to make it insert line feeds into the changelog.
If this could be done, then the script (BTW, any _good_ name
suggestion for it? changelog-changes is rather undescriptive ;)) could
be paired with debconf-updatepo to do some regexp magic on the
"Updated translations" section.
(This section of the reply has been obsoleted by the idea above, but
left it there ;))
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Nikolai Prokoschenko
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