Bug#564915: more research

["Andreas B. Mundt" <andi.mundt@web.de>]

Hi,

after some more testing here are some results. First, I made the standard 
conversion to get a set of numbers as reference:

Lenny unpatched, (this is the reference to compare to) after:
       make update

andi@siddhartha:~/devel/debian-edu-doc/documentation/debian-edu-lenny$ make status
debian-edu-lenny-manual.de.po: 1081 translated messages, 30 fuzzy translations.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.es.po: 235 translated messages, 215 fuzzy translations, 661 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.fr.po: 420 translated messages, 320 fuzzy translations, 371 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.it.po: 1031 translated messages, 40 fuzzy translations, 40 untranslated messages.                                    
debian-edu-lenny-manual.nb.po: 902 translated messages, 209 fuzzy translations. 
debian-edu-lenny-manual.zh.po: 63 translated messages, 52 fuzzy translations, 996 untranslated messages.
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Then I applied the patch on Lenny and ran sed: 

Lenny patched, after execution of:
      sed -i "s/[ \t]*<\//<\//g" debian-edu-lenny-manual.*.po
      make update

andi@siddhartha:~/devel/debian-edu-doc/documentation/debian-edu-lenny$ make status
debian-edu-lenny-manual.de.po: 1072 translated messages, 39 fuzzy translations.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.es.po: 233 translated messages, 219 fuzzy translations, 659 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.fr.po: 418 translated messages, 322 fuzzy translations, 371 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.it.po: 1022 translated messages, 49 fuzzy translations, 40 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.nb.po: 898 translated messages, 213 fuzzy translations. 
debian-edu-lenny-manual.zh.po: 63 translated messages, 52 fuzzy translations, 996 untranslated messages.                                     ----------------------------------

This is an encouraging result- the difference could be related 
to spaces at line breaks.

Finally, I did the same on a machine running Squeeze: 

Squeeze, patched, after:
	  sed -i "s/[ \t]*<\//<\//g" debian-edu-lenny-manual.*.po	
	  make update

debian-edu-lenny-manual.de.po: 1013 translated messages, 96 fuzzy translations, 33 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.es.po: 229 translated messages, 226 fuzzy translations, 687 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.fr.po: 414 translated messages, 331 fuzzy translations, 397 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.it.po: 966 translated messages, 103 fuzzy translations, 73 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.nb.po: 847 translated messages, 263 fuzzy translations, 32 untranslated messages.
debian-edu-lenny-manual.zh.po: 61 translated messages, 56 fuzzy translations, 1025 untranslated messages.                                    ----------------------------------

Result is acceptable, but not as good as on Lenny, 
probably due to modified po4a tools.

Regards
	Andi