Bug#237892: apt: outdated POT file shipped in source package
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:15:37PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:44:06PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Translators should work from CVS preferably; the pot and po files in CVS are
> > up to date.
>
> Huh? You fixed CVS when reading this bugreport, but it was outdated
> as well, so it would not have helped at all. Please fix apt building
> so that apt-all.pot is updated when packages are built, otherwise this
> problem will reappear.
Perhaps it should just be removed from the source tarball. I would rather
that translators work from CVS, since otherwise the translations are almost
never up to date.
> Anyway are you sure that apt-all.pot is complete? It only contains
> 286 strings whereas there are around 450 in 0.5.23.
>
> As a result, all PO files except fr.po (committed after this update) lost
> 200 translated strings in this update. (They are still in PO files and
> marked as obsolete, and will reappear when apt-all.pot is fixed, but
> translators may remove them if they wrongly believe that they are no more
> used)
It does seem wrong that it shrank so much. I'll try to find out what
happened.
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- mdz
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