On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:10:15PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > Package: debian-i18n > Severity: minor > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:30:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > A translator recently submitted a bug report against the unixodbc package, > > offering a translation of the .pot file into German. > > Unfortunately, the .pot file in question is for a tool included in the > > upstream tarball that isn't shipped at all in the Debian package - so I've > > rejected the patch and asked him to communicate with upstream directly. > As far as I know, the po materials are extracted from the patched source > directory (and ./gODBCConfig/po/gODBCConfig.sk.po > ./gODBCConfig/po/gODBCConfig.pot are present). Yes, I've acknowledged as much. > > The trouble is, the suggestion to translate this package came from here: > > http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po/de#i18n > > and the .pot file is published here: > > http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po/pot > > Could these pages be fixed to not suggest translating .pot files when the > > corresponding .po files are demonstrably not being used in the binary > > packages? > How to demonstrate it easily ? > Parsing debian/rules and Makefiles and determine if the pot and po files > are build or not ? Look in the resulting binary packages and see that no sk.mo file is shipped? This may miss some cases where the .po files are used to generate a different sort of output; but I think the only damage done is that those packages will not be shown in the priority list of packages to be translated. > IMO, it would be overkill (one workaround may be removing pot/po files > unused in Debian). From where, from the source package? I'm not going to do that; that makes more ongoing work for me (pruning upstream tarballs) to try to save the translators' time. > At last, as far for the french team, these l10n webpages tell people to > coordinate with the team, so that the coordinator is able to manually > check whether the software is to be translated or not. How are the teams supposed to know that the report is wrong? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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