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Re: an oddity (was: Re: kexec-tools template update)




El 6 de octubre de 2023 16:17:18 CEST, Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> escribió:
>RL wrote:
>> What is the deal with
>> https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/en - are these
>> packages with invalid .po or is the page just not coping with English
>> being the 'default' (but then why are some listed as "complete")?
>
>It looks as if the handful of packages listed there as having "en.po"
>files have various fairly trivial bugs:
>
> norwegian -	no intelligible relationship between msgid and msgstr
>  The en.po file is datestamped 2007, so clearly a relic of some sort
>
> solaar -	msgstr strings diverge arbitrarily from msgids
>  "Automatically generated" relics from before the review in
>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2014/09/msg00005.html
>
> kbd-chooser -	msgstr strings pointlessly duplicate msgids
>  The listed translator died tragically back in 2010...
>  Could this be some sort of udeb oddity?
>
> tzdata	-	msgstr versions are more clearly expressed versions
>  Might be deliberate, but if so it ought to be documented.
>
> durep -	pointless duplication of wobbly English
>  With the translator listed as "dummy"...
>
>This may imply that the best way forward would be to make sure that
>lintian checks for en.po files.

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