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Re: .mo files in source package



Il giorno mer, 02/09/2009 alle 14.12 +0800, Paul Wise ha scritto:
> 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.
> 

In all my (upstream) programs tarballs I ship .mo AND .po files, so that
regeneration isn't necessary but source is present (and can also be used
to provide further translations).

Pietro

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