On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:15:57PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote: > fre 2003-03-07 klockan 10.58 skrev Michael Bramer: > > > I'm looking at > > > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/template_unstable/anna/templates-de.po > > > > > > There are weird things about it. > > > * Several messages are commented out. Why's that? > > > > ok, I make the decision to comment out all untranslated messages. (first > > I add this with a empty messages, and get some 'remove this messages'. I > > hope with this comments, a merge with the package po file and the po > > file from the DDTP simpler, not?) > > Ah, that might be a good point, yes, easier for msgmerge. ok. > > > * There are three *empty* messages (msgid ""), and no, I don't mean the > > > multi-line messages. > > > > Yes. > > > > The ddts assume the every description has a short _and_ one extended > > description. IMHO a missing extended description is a bug (comments?). > > > > Because of this you see this "" messages... > > Oh. I *definitely* don't think it's a bug for the "text" template type, > since it's non-interactive. A missing extended description is almost > always bad, but not necessarily a bug. What does the debconf spec say not a bug in technical sense. IMHO the spec allow this. But sorry, I don't understand this part: 'it's a bug for the "text" template type, since it's non-interactive' Can you explain this? > about it? I think the ddts should handle empty extended descs. Maybe > with a warning. See this empty messages as a warning... > > > * The header lacks terminating \n:s, meaning msgfmt says: > > > msgfmt: templates-de.po: warning: Charset > > > "ISO-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding:" is not a portable encoding name. > > > > I fix this now ... > > Great! have you test some templates? Maybe you (or some other) can write some guide/howto, that we can give the package maintainer? Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "It's a modern Unix! It's stable, superior, enriching! It's gonna get creamed." -- Richard Brandt, Upside
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