Re: How do convert release notes sources from .dbk to .po format?

[Martin Bagge / brother <brother@bsnet.se>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Marcelo Santana wrote:

> Please, does anyone can say me what is the correct way to convert release notes sources from .dbk to .po format?
>
> I'm trying to update Brazilian Portuguese translation of Squeeze release notes and I'm using po4a 0.34-2 (as recommended on Makefile) as bellow but I'm getting a wrong formatting.
>
> po4a-gettextize -f docbook -m en/FILE.dbk -p pt_BR/FILE.po

in the release-notes directory:
$ make updatepo LINGUA=pt_BR

the command behind the scene is in Makefile in the same repository.

updatepo:       $(patsubst en/%.dbk,$(LINGUA)/%.po-force,$(wildcard en/*.dbk))
# The next is just a PHONY target and forcible updates the PO files
#
# Note to translators: For the time begin: we can only work with po4a 0.34-2
# because that one is the one available at www-master. Different po4a bring
# different behaviours so if you are in sid please downgrade to this version
# (and put it on hold) so that you get the "right" PO files.
$(LINGUA)/%.po-force: FORCE
        @po4a_version=$$(dpkg-query -W -f '$${Version}\n' po4a); \
        if [ "$$po4a_version" != "0.34-2" ]; then \
            echo "po4a version: '$$po4a_version'"; \
            echo ""; \
            echo "PO files must be updated with po4a 0.34-2 (Lenny)!"; \
            echo ""; \
            exit 1; \
        fi
        $(UPDATEPO) --master en/$*.dbk --po $(LINGUA)/$*.po

I've added the following two to my workflow

for i in $(ls *.po); do msgcat $i > temp; mv temp $i; done
to get nice looking files (better use the validate target of make though, 
see the documentation in README.translators)

and
for i in $(ls *.po); do echo $i; msgfmt --statistics -o /dev/null $i; done

both of these must be executed inside the language code directory, pt_BR 
in your case - sv in mine =)

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