On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:14:02PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > I recently read a piece about translations of debian descriptions. > Appearantly this is all done without the maintainers even knowing about it. > This is very nice if the maintainer doesn't want to spend time on the > translations. > > However, many packages have an upstream translation team. I think it would be > very useful if those people could translate the Debian description as well. > After all, they know the package, and they know how certain words are > translated inside the program: consistency would be nice there. Also, it > would take some load off the Debian translators, which can then do other > translations, resulting in more translated descriptions. :-) > > So my question is: How can I ask my upstream translators to translate the > Debian description as well (this isn't so strange, because the debian/ dir is > part of upstream svn repository (but not of distribution tarballs))? The > package I have in mind is pioneers. It uses gettext. Is it possible to make > the Debian descriptions part of the po files? I suppose not, as they > shouldn't be in the mo files of the package...
No, please don't put this in the po files of the package. This will not work. I don't think it is very useful if the upstream translate the package description. The package description is for the end user. If a normal translator don't understand the description, the description have a bug. But you / the upstream can, if you like: get the translation template from the ddtp-server (e.g. http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=24998&getuntrans=de ) Translate the <trans> part(s) and send the file as mail attatchment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ps: I'm not subscribed, so please CC me on replies. ok Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux 'Ich bin nicht auf der Welt, um so zu sein wie andere mich gerne hätten!' --- unbekannte Quelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
