Re: how to handle updated .gmo translation file?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:34:17AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> I have a bit of a problem applying the updated Danish .po file from bug # 
> 170562.  Once I copy the new da.po file into the po/ directory and run 
> "fakeroot debian/rules binary", a new da.gmo file is created, but it is 
> not deleted by "fakeroot debian/rules clean".  Then, of course, running 
> "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" dies with the error message
> 
> dpkg-source: cannot represent change to po/da.gmo: binary file contents changed
> 
> How should I handle this?  If I delete po/*.gmo files in the debian/rules 
> clean target, I expect I will get the same error for every *.gmo file
[...]

Iirc you wouldn't. You'd just get "Ignoring deletion of binary file
po/da.gmo".
              cu andreas