On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:17:52PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Package: intltool-debian > Version: 0.34.1+20050828 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > In some unusual circumstances, it's useful to have a debconf template > with an empty short description, but still have an extended description > with translatable text. I'm doing this in the Ubuntu live installer, > which (among other tricks) stores translations of GTK labels in the > debconf database; in many cases it doesn't really make sense to have a > short description here. > > Unfortunately, intltool-merge sees the empty short description, observes > correctly that the empty string is untranslated, and then ignores the > translations of the extended description.
You can achieve the same result with intltool-debian 0.34.1+20060220 with #flag:translate:!1 _Description: Extended description, paragraph 1. . Extended description, paragraph 2. > The attached patch makes intltool-debian check for translations of the > extended description before deciding that an empty short description > means that the whole description is untranslated. I'm afraid the patch > is against an older version than Debian unstable because that's what we > have in Ubuntu dapper at present, so that's what I've tested; if you > want me to port it to the current version, let me know. That's not a problem, I will port it if needed. At the moment I am still undecided. Your patch looks fine, but I do not know if it is needed given that there is a general solution for this issue. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
