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Re: Starting a project to review ALL debconf templates in packages



(keeping both lists CC'ed again and, for that reason, I'm entirely
quoting you)                                                                                                                                                                

Quoting Matthias Julius (lists@julius-net.net):
> Eddy Petri?or <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Matthias Julius wrote:
> >> Eddy Petri?or <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Thomas Huriaux wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (05/03/2007):
> >>>>> The reviewer sends a message with "[ITT] po-debconf://<package>/en.po"
> >>>> I would say ITR (Intend to review) instead of ITT (adding tags to the
> >>>> various bots is a very easy task).
> >>> Also dropping the final "en.po" seems appropriate.
> >> 
> >> Instead, use the path of the *.templates file.
> >
> > That is not needed since there is only one template per source
> > package, so is enough to say '[ITR] po-debconf://package'
> 
> Well, it depends.  There can be multiple *.templates files - one for
> each binary package.  All the strings then get lumped up into one
> templates.pot.  And according to Christian's proposal the reviewers
> will review the *.templates files.
> 
> In many cases they might be too small to be worth reviewing
> separately.  But, there are some large ones.
> 
> At the end the *.templates files should be kept in sync with each
> other to take advantage of common strings to reduce the work of
> translators.  And translators have to deal with the combined
> templates.pot anyway.  So, my idea above is probably overkill after
> all.  You may just ignore it.
> 
> Besides, there are few en.po files in the archive.  Do those actually
> make sense?  If so you should distinguish between them and templates.
> One could use pot-debconf://<package>.


I like that idea, yes.

The various ITF, RFR, etc. mails would then contain either one or
several *.templates files....and reviews should also include or or
more unified diffs


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