Re: [Po4a-dev] Status report of po-debconf

[Martin Quinson]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:31:03PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> [...]
> > But I think that when it's done, it should be done using the po4a tools. So,
> > I'm not sure if we should split up po files here. I mean, why to do
> > debian/po-templates
> > debian/po-control
> > debian/po-???
> > [and by the way, debian/po-debconf is more clear that po-templates]
> > debian/po, with a "big" po both for control and template files per language
> > should be ok, don't you think so?
> 
> Ok, I'll give it a try.
> 
> > > debconf2po:
> [...]
> > What about debconf-gettextize ?
> 
> I did not want to pollute debconf namespace, but after all, why not?
> And ok for -ungettextize too.

This would make it easier to understand what the script does.

[...]
> > > Here is my current roadmap:
> > >   * Add patched intltool scripts until they are shipped by upstream
> > >   * Add regression tests
> > >   * Write documentation
> > >   * Debianize it and send an ITP
> > 
> > Why don't you want to get dh_installpodebconf integrated to dh_*, and other
> > wrapping tools added to debconf-utils ?
> 
> Don't you learn lessons?  SHOW US YOUR CODE ;)

Arf. Yes, I should really learn this leasson from my experiment in dpkg
modification to handle package description translation...

I guess I'm too naiv.

[...]

> Thanks for your comments, I will continue to improve its interface
> and send another report later.  But note that it is near to complete,
> so I will certainly send an ITP next week.

Be sure to CC this list while doing so. Good luck in the hardest path of the
work (ie, integration into other packages).

Bye, Mt.

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