Re: .mo files in source package
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ludovico
Cavedon<ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com> wrote:
> are .mo file considered source, i.e. is an upstream tarball containing
> .mo files ok?
>
> Or is it necessary to have .po files?
>
> If .po files are necessary, but available only via Mercurial, should I
> get the source from SCM, remove the .hg* file and repackage it?
>From what you have said, upstream is modifying the .po files so they
should be considered the source. I recommend asking upstream to ship
.po files instead of .mo files and convert .po to .mo at build time.
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