On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:23:30AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The messages displayed by ATP lack consistency in the use of capitals. Some
> messages make a too much wide use of capitals ("Reading Package Lists")
> which is incorrect in English.
>
> The attached patch applies to what I currently know of APT 0.6 development
> sources and corrects all these messages to only use an initial capital letter.
>
> Please note that applying this patch blindly will break all existing
> translations. The attached fixpo.sh script is a very crude script intended
> to fix the translations in po/. It assumes that translators have been
> consistent in their use of capitals and just preventively unfuzzies the
> strings in the PO files.
>
> I however recommend to not use fixpo.sh blindly. Besides being an horror in
> terms of CPU usage, it may be not enough for fixing everything. So if the
> decision to apply this patch is made, I propose to handle the transition.
>
> What I need currently is an ACK that this proposed patch is OK to be applied
> or
> not on sources....so that I know what to do on translations.
>
> This is why I haven't applied it yet on my arch repository.
This looks fine to me (for mainline; don't bother with sarge for this).
I'm happy to merge it along with the other changes on your branch.
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- mdz
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