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Package: po-debconf
Version: 1.0.15
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
debconf-loadtemplate will not accept a templates file with i18n
markups. However, it will accept a merged file. The po-debconf
manpage should document the new debugging process. Also, the English
manpage is worded somewhat awkwardly in several places. I suggest
this patch.
- Jim Van Zandt
--- doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod-orig 2008-11-11 18:14:20.000000000 -0500
+++ doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod 2008-11-11 18:57:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
The goal of C<debconf> was to make package configuration user-friendly. In
order to achieve this, it is important to ensure that users will get the
question in their own language. Translators need a framework to easily
-work on translations without having to track down package development;
+work on translations without having to track package development;
C<po-debconf> was designed to be able to work with standard C<gettext>
tools when translating debconf templates files.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
Paths are relative to the parent directory.
-=item - Prepend an underscore before translatable fields
+=item - Prepend an underscore before translatable fields in each template
Normally C<Description>, C<Choices> and sometimes C<Default> fields can be
translated.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
=head1 UPDATE TEMPLATES
In order to help translators, PO files in your package should always
-be up-to-date, otherwise they may lose their time with unused strings.
+be up-to-date, otherwise they may waste their time translating unused strings.
For that, simply call the following command without arguments:
$ debconf-updatepo
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
files are fully translated.
The B<debconf-updatepo> program is idempotent, it modifies PO files only
-if their content has been updated. Thus the best solution to provide
+if their content has been updated. Thus the best way to provide
up-to-date PO files in your source package is to call this command from
the C<clean> target of the F<debian/rules> file.
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
=head2 SPLITTING CHOICES LIST
Since C<po-debconf> 0.6.0, localized fields may contain two leading
-underscores. In this case, field value is supposed to be a comma
+underscores. In this case, the field value is supposed to be a comma
separated list of values, which are put in separate msgids. Thus
if the previous example did contain
@@ -163,15 +163,15 @@
Eventually you have to remove F<foo> and manually edit F<debian/templates> to
replace C<_Choices> by C<__Choices> before B<debconf-updatepo> is run.
-=head2 PUTTING COMMENTS FOR TRANSLATORS
+=head2 PUTTING IN COMMENTS FOR TRANSLATORS
C<Dpkg> maintainers decided that by convention lines beginning with
a number sign (C<#>) are comments in F<debian/control> files, and C<po-debconf>
follows this rule. Since C<po-debconf> 0.8.0, such comments are written
-into PO files, and can then contain valuable informations for
+into PO files, and can then contain valuable information for
translators. Incidentally all previous C<po-debconf> versions ignore
lines which do not contain a colon, thus if your comments does not
-contain any colon, there is no need to add a versioned build dependency
+contain any colons, there is no need to add a versioned build dependency
against C<po-debconf>. Here is an example:
Template: debconf/button-yes
@@ -279,6 +279,23 @@
for instance one week in advance. A dedicated tool, B<podebconf-report-po>,
has been written for this purpose. Do not hesitate to abuse it!
+=head1 DEBUGGING
+
+You will find that B<debconf-loadtemplate> will not accept a templates
+file with i18n markups. However, it will accept a merged file, so if
+you have been debugging your debconf setup like this
+
+ rm /tmp/{config,templates}.dat{,-old}
+ debconf-loadtemplate debian/templates
+ DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low debconf -freadline debian/config configure 28.0
+
+you will now need something like this instead:
+
+ po2debconf debian/templates > debian/tmp/DEBIAN/templates
+ rm /tmp/{config,templates}.dat{,-old}
+ debconf-loadtemplate debian/tmp/DEBIAN/templates
+ DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low debconf -freadline debian/config configure 28.0
+
=head1 CAVEATS
=over 2
@@ -293,7 +310,7 @@
=item *
-A given English string may have only one unique translation in a given
+A given English string may be given only one unique translation in a given
language. It is impossible to give two different translations, depending
on the context. To solve this issue, you have to add special markups to
the different occurrences of a given string to make them different.
@@ -402,8 +419,9 @@
L<debconf-gettextize(1)>,
L<debconf-updatepo(1)>,
L<dh_installdebconf(1)>,
-L<podebconf-report-po(1)>.
-L<po2debconf(1)>.
+L<podebconf-report-po(1)>,
+L<po2debconf(1)>,
+L<debconf-devel(7)>.
=head1 AUTHORS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages po-debconf depends on:
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii perl 5.10.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages po-debconf recommends:
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 2.012-1 Perl module for creation and manip
pn libmail-box-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libmail-sendmail-perl <none> (no description available)
po-debconf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Source: po-debconf
Source-Version: 1.0.16
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
po-debconf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
po-debconf_1.0.16.dsc
to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.16.dsc
po-debconf_1.0.16.tar.gz
to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.16.tar.gz
po-debconf_1.0.16_all.deb
to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.16_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[email protected]> (supplier of
updated po-debconf package)
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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:05:55 +0200
Source: po-debconf
Binary: po-debconf
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0.16
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <[email protected]>
Description:
po-debconf - tool for managing templates file translations with gettext
Closes: 495352 503086 503523 505393 508454 510485 513800 519868 519870
Changes:
po-debconf (1.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ packaging ]
* debian/control: Standards-Version bumped to 3.8.1. No changes.
* debian/compat: Bumped to 7.
* debian/rules: Replace dh_clean -k by dh_prep.
* debian/control: Updated build dependency on debhelper (>= 7.0.0).
.
[ debconf-updatepo ]
* Fix the support for --msgid-bugs-address. Thanks to Felix Zielcke.
Closes: #503523
.
[ podebconf-report-po ]
* Apply patches from 1.0.15ubuntu1
- Fix opportunistic import of Mail::Box::Manager, to avoid crashing with
an import error if libmail-box-perl is not installed. Now it actually
shows the "Please install libmail-box-perl" message, as the code intends
to. Thanks to Colin Watson for suggesting this fix!
- Drop libmail-box-perl to Suggests:. It is not needed for most users of
po-debconf, drags in lots of more packages, and with above fix the
failure mode of podebconf-report-po is adequate.
- Closes: #503086, #519868
* podebconf-report-po: If the postponed mailbox does not exist, create it.
Closes: #519870
.
[ documentation ]
* doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod: encourage __Choices instead of _Choices.
Closes: #495352
* doc/po4a/po/vi.po: Updated Vietnamese translation. Thanks to Clytie
Siddall. Closes: #513800
* doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod: document the debugging process. Thanks to James
R. Van Zandt. Closes: #505393
* debian/control: English fixes in the package description. Closes: #508454
* debian/control: Update build dependencies for po4a (>= 0.36) and
perl (>= 5.10) to get a proper support of UTF-8 manpages from POD
documents.
* doc/po4a/po/*.po, doc/po4a/add_*/translator.*: convert to UTF-8,
* doc/po4a/po-debconf.cfg: Generate all translated POD document in UTF-8.
* doc/Makefile: COnvert to UTF-8, use the -utf8 pod2man option.
Closes: #510485
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