Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> severity 502245 normal
> thanks
>
> Lowering severity as this seems to be an old issue in the mktemplates
> script with a relatively limited impact.
>
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Apparently for some reason we generate the template file incorrectly
> > for se.
>
> Root of the problem for se is that there is no iso-codes translation for
> se. However, the problem is rather structural. For am we have the same
> problem, but limited to only CA, FR, NI, PT, SV, TW and UA; other
> countries are translated.
>
> Cause is that when po2debconf is run over the temporary templates file and
> the merged PO files, this string is defined as "individually translated
> choices" ("__" prefix) with country codes in the original. If no
> translation can be found for an individual choice, the untranslated
> choice is taken.
>
> There is one check missing: if _none_ of the choices is translated, then
> the whole string should be seen as untranslated and thus should be
> omitted from the output for that translation. This could be seen a bug in
> po2debconf.
>
> The other lesson is that it's not really smart to have codes in the
> original in this case. It would probably be better to do the merge based
> on country names and add the Choices-C field back in later. However, that
> will require quite a rewrite of mktemplates.
A not too invasive workaround could be merging the templates PO file
with the en.po file from ISO-3166 there:
if [ -f $ISO3166TRANSLATIONS/$pofilename ]
then
# Output is verbose, don't worry
# Convert translations to UTF-8, and map country names to country
# codes in iso-codes translations
.../...
# Else we just use what's translated
else
-> cp $pofile debian/pobuild/$pofilename && true
fi
Replace "cp $pofile debian/pobuild/$pofilename" by
"msgcat --use-first $pofile $ISO3166TRANSLATIONS/en.po >
debian/pobuild/$pofilename"
....
However, minor "problem": there is no en.po file in ISO-3166
translations..:-). But I think you get the point: we would then trick
down gettext. Ugly but the less invasive solution, probably....if only
we could get these "English translations"....
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