Package: po-debconf
Severity: normal
hi,
i've been working on a QA upload lately. Lintian keeps on complainig
about wrong template files (If the short description does not end with a
colon), so i wanted to get rid of the Lintian warnings.
Well, lets note thats more or less the first time im updating a original
templates file, so if im doing something wrong please enlighten me..
Heres what i did:
1) Changing the Description field of the original debian/templates file
the following way:
[..]
Type: string
-_Description: Which serial device is the X-10 CP-290 controller connected
to?
+_Description: Serial device:
+ Which serial device is the X-10 CP-290 controller connected to?
+ .
If you have an X-10 CP-290 controller connected to your system, you can
[..]
2) running debconf-updatepo which does happily merge the new changes
into the existing pofiles (example is from po/cs.po):
[..]
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: x10\n"
-"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-04-26 14:22+0200\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2006-05-18 00:19+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2005-06-18 14:13+0200\n"
"Last-Translator: Miroslav Kure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n"
"Language-Team: Czech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n"
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@
#. Type: string
#. Description
#: ../templates:3
+msgid "Serial:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: string
+#. Description
+#: ../templates:3
msgid "Which serial device is the X-10 CP-290 controller connected to?"
msgstr "Ke kterému sériovému zaÅÃzenà je pÅipojen kontrolér X-10
CP-290?"
@@ -40,8 +46,8 @@ i pÅipojen kontrolér X-10 CP-290, můžete
zadat jméno "
"sériového porty, ke kterému je pÅipojen. NáslednÄe na tento port
uje jako "
-"\"/dev/ttyS0\"."z /dev/x10. NapÅÃklad prvnà sériový port se
oznaÄuje jako \"/"
+"dev/ttyS0\"."dkaz /dev/x10. NapÅÃklad prvnà sériový port se oznaÄ
#. Type: string
#. Description
[..]
3) Now, running po2debconf only ends up with a template file which does
not include one of the other translations:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x10/x10-1.06/debian$ po2debconf -v templates
NOTICE: ./po/sv.po is not in UTF-8 but iso-8859-1, converting...
NOTICE: ./po/fr.po is not in UTF-8 but ISO-8859-1, converting...
NOTICE: ./po/ja.po is not in UTF-8 but EUC-JP, converting...
Template: x10/device
Type: string
Description: Serial:
Which serial device is the X-10 CP-290 controller connected to?
.
If you have an X-10 CP-290 controller connected to your system, you can
give the name of the serial port that it is connected to, and that port
will be linked to /dev/x10 where the program will find it. For example,
the first serial port on your system is named "/dev/ttyS0".
.
If you don't want to do this, just leave the answer empty.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x10/x10-1.06/debian$
well, and that is the point i cant decide wether this is my fault, or
the fault of po2debconf or debconf-updatepo. At least, po2debconf should
print some kind of note why it happily ignores the other pofiles. I then
tried to set a msgstr for the new msgid like that:
[..]
#. Description
#: ../templates:3
msgid "Serial:"
-msgstr ""
+msgstr "foobarbazbla"
[..]
which seems to make po2debconf happy and it merges the translated pofile
into the templates:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x10/x10-1.06/debian$ po2debconf -v templates
NOTICE: ./po/sv.po is not in UTF-8 but iso-8859-1, converting...
NOTICE: ./po/fr.po is not in UTF-8 but ISO-8859-1, converting...
NOTICE: ./po/ja.po is not in UTF-8 but EUC-JP, converting...
Template: x10/device
[ .. english original ..]
Description-cs.UTF-8: foobarbazbla
Ke kterému sériovémi pÅipojen kontrolér X-10uje jako "/dev/ttyS0".t
jméno sériového porty, ke kterému je pÅipojen. NáslednÄe na tento
port vytvoÅà symbolický odkaz /d ./x10. NapÅÃklad prvnà sériový
port se oznaÄ
Nechcete-li nic zadávat, ponechte pole prázdné.
looking at po-files from other packages it seems to be okey for the
msgstr to be empty (at least ive found several short descriptions
which are so), so i really dont get whats going on here, TIA.
bye,
- michael
