Package: po-debconf Version: 0.8.22 Severity: minor I was recently attempting to check a dutch translation I made. podebconf-display-po <po-file> didn't work
two causes:
- my environment locale wasn't set to Dutch, easily solved by calling
LANG=nl_BE podebconf-display-po <po-file>
- my po-file wasn't named nl.po but shadow_nl.po, and apperently
podebconf-display-po needs the po-file to be called <lang-code>.po in order
to find the translated strings.
If possible technically you probably should always use the translated
strings from the po-file regardless of locale settings (I can't think of
any use-case where you wouldn't want this.)
Of course without setting LANG correctly you'll still get the environment
locale versions of the debconf-strings 'yes', 'no', ... (while not perfect,
I personally don't consider that a real problem)
If the above isn't possible it should at least be noted in the man-page (and
README-trans) that:
- the po-file /must/ be named <lang-code>.po
- LANG /must/ be set correctly
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Cheers, cobaco
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