On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:54:12AM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:20:59PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > > So, do you say hereby, that this functionality is not needed at all? > > Not at all, I am just trying to evaluate its drawbacks. If all PO files > > were gathered into a single place as described at the bottom of > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2004/debian-i18n-200401/msg00061.html > > requiring updates of debian/changelog files would not make sense, so > > your script might be very helpful then. > > As much I'd like my script to be useful ;) I don't think that merging > files and maintaining them is a good idea or better said, a good idea for > a bunch of translators.
This is an option, but I was referring to this part: ] Mandrake folks define an aliased po module containing all po directories ] http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT/modules In other words, we might have po/anna.po/ -> anna/debian/po/ po/aboot-installer.po -> tools/aboot-installer/debian/po etc. so that all PO files are available for translators from the po module, and they still reside at their usual place. [...] > > As Steve Langasek told in another thread, you have to balance workload > > of translators and maintainers. Maybe someone has to write another > > script to report changes within packages in subdirectories since the > > last upload, including a) new changelog entries and b) updated PO files. > > It's kind of tricky to track changes in the source files, as they do not > have a required date field. The same with changelogs: I could grep for > "translation" or "\(??\.po\)" but they would still be no algorithm for > finding out from a script, what exactly has been updated. And no, I am not > writing an English language parser in bash :) Sorry I was unclear, this script should only: a. Look at debian/changelog to find UNRELEASED sections. b. Report PO files updated after the last upload. If it is run from inside a package directory, it displays the debian/changelog which will be generated by your script. But when run from top-level debian-installer, it could produce a status report for all packages, maybe maintainers could find this tool useful and then accept that translators do not update debian/changelog. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]