Hello David,
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:07:05PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:
> > The synopsis of the man pages for apt (apt-get, apt-cache, apt-config,
> > …) is no longer translated to German, which, besides being unpretty
> > for the central line of the man page, leads to inconsistencies.
>
> That is my fault, as Christian Perrier wished some time ago that we rework
> the synopsis thingy so that a translator doesn't need to translate the
> complete synopsis with all it's complicated xml tags and words which
> shouldn't be translated. That was just to fragile to work with.
> So as i had to update a few synopsis's for 0.9 anyway i finally did that.
> On the downsize this makes all synopsis translations currently non-existent.
> Translators end up needing to translate something like (2 examples):
> >>>>>
> #. type: Plain text
> #: apt.ent:226
> msgid ""
> "<!-- TRANSLATOR: used as in apt-get install pkg e.g. apt-get install awesome "
> "--> <!ENTITY synopsis-pkg \"pkg\">"
> msgstr ""
>
> #. type: Plain text
> #: apt.ent:229
> msgid ""
> "<!-- TRANSLATOR: used as in pkg=pkg_version_number e.g. apt=0.8.15 --> <!"
> "ENTITY synopsis-pkg-ver-number \"pkg_version_number\">"
> msgstr ""
> <<<<<
> now. The words are used to build the various synopsis's with the added
> benefit that you have to translate it only once and have it consistently
> in every manpage (which was a problem for the original english one, too).
>
> Still includes xml, but at least way less.
So I understand you correctly that SYNOPSIS will be translated again
in the future, just more easily? That's great!
> > Maintainers: It would be great if apt could be updated before Wheezy
> > with the complete German translation (i.e. SYNOPSIS and the remaining
> > currently untranslated man page parts).
>
> Sure.
>
> I wanted to fix a few more things and ask properly for translation updates,
> but somehow there is always one more rc bug to fix first… :/
> I hope i get these fixes done this weekend as we slowly run out of time.
No problem. It just would be kind if you could announce a date for
translators, at least the most active ones can cope with getting their
act together.
(And probably a translation update can be done even after the freeze
started).
Thanks for your very fast reply!
Greetings
Helge
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