Re: [PKG-Openstack-devel] Please re-use other packages debconf translations when introducing new OpenStack packages

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 05/02/2014 03:00 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Dear OpenStack maintainers,
> 
> I just noticed Yet Another OpenStack package popping up today, namely
> "designate". This package has 32 new strings in its debconf
> templates...all of them similar to other OpenStack packages strings.
> 
> In order to send the update work to the French translator in charge of
> all these things (J. Patriarca), I picked strings from Neutron and
> synced them with designate templates....which leads to only cosmetic
> changes to do in order to have a complete translation.
> 
> Still, it would be nice if that work is done "upstream" by you, as
> maintainers. When introducing a new package, often by "deriving" an
> existing one, I guess, could you *also* pick the debconf translations
> of that package...then just resync them (debconf-updatepo is your
> friend).
> 
> This way, the translations in the uploaded package would be nearly
> complete and translators have minimal work to do (you know that we're lazy
> people, don't you?).
> 
> More seriously, it would save us the time to big up for similar
> package in you vast collection of packages....which is not really
> easy, as all of them are slightly different one for each other....
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your help in future packages.

Hi,

I believe that templates for Designate were taken from another OpenStack
package. I can't tell which one (it's been too much time), but I'm sure
it is the case.

If you can produce a diff to fix the package templates, I'd be happy to
apply it, but right now, I'm not sure how to detect the differences
between the strings in an efficient way. Advices welcome.

Cheers,

Thomas