Re: Script for backporting translations

[Håvard Korsvoll <korsvoll@skulelinux.no>]

Daniel Nylander skreiv:
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> Håvard Korsvoll skrev:
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> > - Merge HEAD.po with STABLE.po with these rules:
> >     1 If msgid's are equal and msgstr's are different => use msgstr
> >       from HEAD.po
> >     2 Any msgid in STABLE.po that are not in HEAD.po should be left
> >       with its current msgstr.
> >     3 Any msgid in HEAD.po that are not in STABLE.po should be
> >       discarded.
> >
> > Point 1 could be done with msgmerge -U HEAD.po STABLE.po. But it
> > clutters point 2 since it don't look at the msgstr in STABLE.po.
> >
> > Are there anyone who can help?
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> I might be a bit slow here but what benefits would 2 and 3 give you?

Well, if I use msgmerge as I suggest, and there has been a change in the 
msgid between STABLE and HEAD. STABLE will end up with an empty or fuzzy 
translation of that string since it doesn't find that msgid in HEAD. 
This is wrong since the translation may be perfectly valid for the 
STABLE version.

Håvard