Hi all, as you probably know I like the idea to send in many updates to the package descriptions at once. This is especially useful to fix common typos, bogus encoding, ... I noticed that I misunderstood Michael's remark, that the review process is not yet possible. This may be true but nevertheless it's already possible to resend a corrected translated package description to the server. Great! This is all I required to write a script which takes two Translation-$LANG files as arguments, creates a diff and sends all modified descriptions back to the server. So I can now update hundreds of translations with a single command. I attached it but I'm not sure wether it's a good idea to use it yet: * I do not add "noguide" to the subject because someone mentioned there is no mail processing in this case. This may result in recieving many mails. * The larger problem I see is that the description fetched via http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=1&getuntrans=de are not up-to-date in contrast to http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=1&language=de. The simplest way to get a translation template is using the &getuntrans= address but this may be outdated! Michael, is there any way that you could update these files more often/dynamically? (I also wrote code to create the template using the webdate from the second link. But I consider this not a clean solution and removed it.) Apart from this (and under the assumption that nobody did major updates to already translated description which are currently not available using the first link) my script works well. All you have to do is to change a few variables at the start of the file. You can savely test it as it sends mails per default to your local mail address instead of pdesc@ddtp.debian.net. Michael, it would also help a lot if you could update the Translation-* files more often (daily). You said that a cronjob was broken. Did you repaired it? Jens
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