On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:09:58PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:15:07PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > [...] > > > What kind of debconf templates are you translating? The ddtp page is not > > > clear about that, and I seem to remember that you still translate debconf > > > templates of the old generation, ie, the ones handled by debconf-utils. > > > > you can btw test the first files, see > > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/template_unstable/base-config/templates-de.po > > There are several problems: > * all msgids have a trailing space > * msgids are not unique > * encoding is not specified Oh, I know this all. This are the first files..., I will add/change this points. This was no announcement of the availability of po files. > But the main problem is that you are extracting templates from binary > packages, and not source packages. This is exactly as if you were Maybe I should change the source from binary packages to source packages. The nice point with the binary packages is: You can find the templates all on the some place in all packages. If I use the source, the server must search the templates and guess it. And maybe the template file will be change with some patch files etc. in some packages build scripts. > translating messages by running msgunfmt on .mo files. You are losing > comments written by previous translators. and? Maybe the DDTS is not compatible with this po like comments. But is this a problem? IMHO no. My dream: The package maintainer make only 'his' english templates file and upload the package to the archive. The DDTP will catch all this new stuff, translate it all in 1-2 weeks automagical into all languages. If the package maintainer make a new build, some build scripts download the translations from the DDTP and include this to this package (the old system) or the DDTP make a XXX-i10n-XX package itself and upload this with all the translation. You get the point? We don't need comments in the po files! The po file is only a container for the transport from the DDTP to the binary package. Nobody will look into it. Nobody will read this comments... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Documentation is is like sex; bad documentation is much better than no documentation.
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