Package: po-debconf
Version: 0.9.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
It's rather common in d-i for us to want to do things like this:
_Choices: no ethernet card, ${CHOICES}, none of the above
__Choices: Retry network autoconfiguration, Retry network autoconfiguration
with a DHCP hostname, Configure network manually, ${wifireconf}, Do not
configure the network at this time
__Choices: /dos, /windows, Enter manually, Do not mount it
The first is particularly nasty, since translators have to know to
accurately transcribe the ${...} substitution, and in practice people
often get this wrong in ways that are hard to test and the situation has
to be corrected by clever searching tools.
The second is not so bad (as one might expect from __Choices), but it
still results in msgids that must be translated to the exact same msgstr
(the ${...} substitution in one case, and the literal directory names in
the other), so we have essentially the same resulting problems and it's
still hard to test that the code will behave correctly no matter what
the selected language is. I've seen various hacks around this, such as
substituting the translated description of a separate text template into
the choices list, and I've seen a number of resulting bugs from code
that fails to translate back from the localised text into C that are
extremely hard to track down.
I think we could avoid a number of these problems, and get rid of some
unnecessary load on translators, if there were a mechanism in po-debconf
to declare that only some of the entries in a Choices list are to be
translated. I appreciate that coming up with a reasonable syntax for
declaring this might be tricky!
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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