On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Hello Serge,
Hi Benno, thanks for your reply. > > I've been looking over https://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html > > and don't see anything about an initial registration that I should do with > > the shadow project before announcing a release. So, sorry if I'm making a > > mis-step here. Any help in keeping translations uptodate is greatly > > appreciated. > > Grepping for Language-Team in the existing PO files, many of them refer to a > Debian mailing list. So it seems to me that shadow was being translated by > Debian people before. Yes, it was. I've been the maintainer for a few years now. I wasn't aware of any such formal arrangement. I've just occasionally gotten some new .po files. Perhaps these were always in response to new debian shadow package releases? I don't do those so wouldn't have noticed. I'm cc:ing pkg-shadow-devel@ in case someone there knows more about any current arrangements. > Do you want to transfer the translation from there to > the TP? Do the Debian people know this and agree? I'll try to find out more. I'll be appreciative of whichever team is willing to help :) I'll reply here again if it's decided we should transfer. Thank you! > When the shadowdomain would become registered at the TP, it means you must > consider the TP upstream from with regards to the PO files: you should only > use the PO files that come from the TP and not accept PO files from > translators > directly. (See https://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html, section > 2, > third paragraph.) > > I see that the man/ subdir contains a whole bunch of translated man pages. > And there is also a man/po/ subdir, which seems to contain the source for > the translated pages. But there are several more language subdirs than > there are PO files in man/po/. How does this work? Are these existing > language subdirs a legacy, and the man/po/*.po files the new system that > is to be used? Do you want to register also a shadow-man domain at the TP? > > By the way, the man/po/shadow-man-pages.pot does not seem up-to-date: > it still shows Nicolas as "shadow-utils maintainer, 2007 - now". The .pot files are black magic to me. I've not touched them. > Regards, > > Benno _______________________________________________ Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
