On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:30:08PM +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: >> intltool 0.40.3 and older does not handle translatable entries with >> dashes in desktop files. For example: >> >> _X-XfceSettingsName=Window Manager >> >> This may be more common that you would expect, as non-standard entries >> in .desktop files are required to start with 'X-'. For example, this >> affects the Xfce way of specifying 'short' names for entries in the >> settings manager, at least in the upcoming 4.6 release. >> I extracted the patch to fix this from the intltool subversion repo, and >> I've attached it to this mail. The patch may need some minor >> modification to work with 0.40.0 or even 0.40.3, as the line number may >> have changed (but patch(1) may be intelligent enough to get this). >> I guess this is too late for etch, though? Another option for >> unstable/next stable (after lenny) would be to upgrade to 0.40.4, which >> has this fix included. > > I believe this sort of fixes should go into lenny, if it needs to be a useful > development platform. > > Actually reviewing if having 0.40.3+patch or 0.40.4 is possible would be even > better, as there are other important bug fixes since 0.40.0. > > I'll see what other team members say before we push things one way or another. > > Jordi > -- > Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ > GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ >
Thank you, that would be really great! Just FYI, the upstream bug report in question for this issue is at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549243 . // Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
