On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:06:55AM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:37:29 -0800 > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > All po-debconf checks are currently done against the source package, > > and if we can diagnose the problem on the source package, I'd rather > > do it there since fixing the problem really requires action on the > > whole source package rather than separate actions for each binary > > package. > > The source package does not contain the post-processed templates file > that debconf actually reads. It is the file that is created after the > PO files are merged into the DEBIAN/templates file during the final > stages of the package build.
The source package includes templates.pot, which is sufficient for this check. Compare it against the .po files. I believe that that is the only correct way to implement a check like this. As mentioned in my previous mails, you can't do this in the binaries because important and relevant annotations have already been discarded by that point. > > > If the binary check is added, the certainty can be raised and also the > > > severity. With that change, the description could be made more strict: > > > > I don't see why a binary check would change the certainty. Maybe I'm > > missing something? > > The source package check can only process the msgfmt output which is > overly brief. msgfmt does not say whether all translations are missing > the *same* string, it just says that all translations are missing *a* > string. That's all it does right now, but there are plenty of other ways to process .po files. Using liblocale-po-perl would be the obvious way, but if you didn't want to do that you could implement a home-grown parser easily enough (the format is documented) or use msgcat to transform the files into some more readily-parseable form. This is not hard by comparison with many of the other things Lintian does. :-) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
