Re: [Translation-i18n] The reason for make dist updating po files

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> But the msgmerge invocations during "make dist" are still justified,
> because some translators will prefer to work from the released
> .tar.gz.
> 
> The "cvs commit" in the PO directory after "make dist" is not really
> needed - because translators working off the CVS use intltool-update
> anyway. Its only purpose is to avoid a CVS conflict for the person
> doing the "make dist".  And, assuming a proper intltool-commit tool,
> these "cvs commit"s won't hurt either.

There is a another argument for committing the updated translations
after make dist and that is that the tarball should contain what is
tagged in CVS with the respective release tag. This is the only way to
ensure that problems in a released tarball can be reasonably examined
based on CVS. I admit that there should only seldom be problems caused
by translations but it can happen.


Sven