Bug#387360: [checks/po-debconf] Invalid files in debian/po directory
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (13/09/2006):
>> > W: dpkg-www source: unknown-po-debconf-file debian/po/cs.po.Miroslav_Kure
>>
>> This is an example of an extra file that, on its surface, seems
>> legitimate.
> This looks more like an old translation that could be removed.
Well, yeah, but apparently the maintainer wanted to keep it around for
some reason. I may not agree as a maintainer -- it just seems like the
sort of thing that I could see someone doing.
> My main purpose by writing this patch was to detect the following files:
> W: setserial source: unknown-po-debconf-file debian/po/setserial.ja.po
> W: setserial source: unknown-po-debconf-file debian/po/setserial.pl.po
> Those one introduce the following fields in the master file:
> Description-setserial.ja.UTF-8:
> Description-setserial.pl.UTF-8:
> The translations are then lost (unless a ll.po file also exists, which
> is here the case for ja but not for pl).
> or
> W: vtun source: unknown-po-debconf-file debian/po/vtun_2.6-3_ja.po
> introducing the Description-vtun_2.6-3_ja.UTF-8: field
Would we catch most of these issues by looking for badly-named files that
end in .po?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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