On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:20:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: [...] > > After PO files are generated, debconf-updatepo can be used to update PO > > files. There is a problem, this program does not work with #-comments, > > so tasksel should ship a slightly modified version of this script. > > Or I could patch debconf-updatepo if you (Joey Hess) want to allow those > > comments in debconf templates files (of course po2debconf will then > > remove these comments) too. As debconf-updatepo is mostly a wrapper > > around intltool-update, I believe that the former is the best solution. > > Maybe you were looking at the wrong files. There are no comments in the > debian-tasks.desc file, as they're stripped out when it's generated. > That's the file that needs to be translated. Yes, it's rfc-822, and the > translatable fields are Description and Task.
I looked at tasksel-1.25/tasks/* files, which seems to contain source files generating debian-tasks.desc. IMO we have to translate these files, this is why I talked about these comments. > > Ddtp translations are by essence moving, so I am reluctant to provide the > > generated PO files now, but the German file is available at > > http://people.debian.org/~barbier/i18n/tasksel.de.po > > for testing purpose. > > > > If this approach looks reasonable to everyone, next steps are: > > a. Let the tasksel maintainer decide of a textdomain > > debian-tasks sounds about right to me. Or rather, I think the domain > should match the name of the file in /usr/share/tasksel which aptitude > or tasksel got the data from. There's a possibility that they may read > more than one file in some customised versions of debian, and I only > want to leave that option open. > > > b. Patch all tools printing tasksel descriptions to call > > dgettext(textdomain, msgid) > > c. Patch debconf-updatepo or let tasksel provide its own script, which > > does not complain about #-comments. > > d. Let the ddts provide PO files > > e. Get PO files into tasksel and install .mo files > > All these steps are fairly easy. > > I'd be happy for any help with b and e. My time for tasksel is limited > right now. Okay, I believe I understand the whole picture now. I'll provide patches in few days. Denis
