On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:39:20AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> If a master document is more recent than the POT, calling 'po4a
> --rm-translations' will have the side-effect of updating it and the PO
> files based on it. This is annoying because it makes it difficult to
> write a minimal patch for a Debian package that uses po4a upstream; the
> clean rule can end up changing source files, which is normally
> undesirable.
>
> Could you please either make --rm-translations do nothing except
> removing the translated files, or else add an option to inhibit updating
> the PO/POT files?
In fact, ordinary calls to 'po4a' to generate translations (which I do
during 'make') also involve updating the PO/POT files. I've had to do
this in the man-db packaging:
override_dh_auto_build:
set -e; for preserve in man/po4a/po/*.pot man/po4a/po/*.po; do \
[ ! -e "$$preserve.safe" ] || continue; \
cp -a "$$preserve" "$$preserve.safe"; \
done
dh_auto_build
override_dh_auto_clean:
dh_auto_clean
set -e; for preserve in man/po4a/po/*.pot man/po4a/po/*.po; do \
[ -e "$$preserve.safe" ] || continue; \
mv "$$preserve.safe" "$$preserve"; \
done
This is really pretty ugly, though. GNU gettext only updates these
files on explicit request or when you say 'make dist', which I think is
much better behaviour.
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