Hi, Américo Monteiro <[email protected]> wrote (Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:10:08 +0100): > Hi > > Holger many thanks for your work, looks like it is running now.
Yes, looks good at the moment. > So, if I understood all the stuff you wrote, there is a program that every > day > goes to the Debian archive, copies and unpacks all the packages in there (and > they are a lot) one by one, to look for po and pot files, them parses these > pot > and po files to generate a database about all the strings it finds translated > or > not, them deletes the package and moves to the next one... wow > > I had no idea this worked this way... Yes, your summary is correct so far... > This make me wonder about the 'why' there always been strange things in these > lists it generates: > There are several manpages that end up in the list for UI messages, like for > example the dgit manpages that are all in the wrong list The reason for this seems to be, that some packages are not compatible with the logic of this process you described above, when it comes to the directory structure, where/how po|pot files are stored. Some package maintainers might say, the above logic is wrong/not optimal/not smart enough, and the programmer of that logic might say, the package maintainers do not follow some related rules. Difficult issue, I guess... > Another weird thing, i've translated the debconf for libreoffice e it never > showed anywhere, but if you do a debcheckout, the po files are all in there. > > Looks to me the system does not parse all the packages in the correct way, > and > in some packages (at least libreoffice) it does not even see the po/pot files. I have now placed a link on https://i18n.debian.org/ under 'Translation material' pointing to the file, where the list of ignored packages is stored. There you find a comment for libreoffice: "incompatible path structure; produces tons of invalid entries. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2023/11/msg00012.html."; So libreoffice is ignored by intend. > About the nvidia-cuda-toolkit: > synaptic says it has 205Mb > I did a debcheckout and my computer went nuts... in the process it atrophied > my system, looking like it was under heavy load, despite the cpu meter did > not > show heavy load and it did not use all the memory, but it did stop responding > normally. It took more than 15 minutes to complete the task and end up with > 24.1 Gb under the directory where I did the debcheckout. > This is indeed a very weird package... > Anyway, there is no po/pot files anywhere in this pack, so keep it on the > blacklist. ACK Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
