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Re: when updating translation of maint-guide.sgml



On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:52:54PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:14:53PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > I'm updating to current english version (1.91)
> > BTW, some one updated previously the translation without changing
> > the xref to the english version. Please, don't do that...
> 
> It took me a while before understanding your message :-)  
> 
> Good catch!  But here is the real story.
> 
> CVS revision=1.91 is the version I uploaded as Debian package
> version=1.2.3.  (In new queue since it has new Korean translation.)
> 
> I based it on CVS=1.42 (DEB=1.2.2).
> 
> There were no CVS version tracking in these files.  I added it.
> Since I have no clue on which version all these translation were based,
> they are all marked as "*.**".
> 

Err, in the case of that translation there was a comment about the
related english version, just a pair of lines below :) I added that quite a lot
of time ago, due to lack of information about that.
Of course, tagging as you did is better.

> I hope, that,  when translator update translation, translator will
> insert proper CVS version of English text in those field marked as
> "*.**".  Then we can use CVS version based content tracking later.  (By
> using script from debian-reference)
> 

That's what I'm doing in the new translation.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine



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