Re: gnome-utils branched for 2.28

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 22 septembre 2009 à 10:19 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:04 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> > Le mardi 22 septembre 2009 à 09:49 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> > > hi everyone;
> > > 
> > > gnome-utils has been branched for GNOME 2.28, under the usual gnome-2-28
> > > branch name. development will continue on master.
> > 
> > Thanks, l10n.gnome.org updated.
> > 
> > > side note for gnome-i18n: I had to fuzzy two strings in the si and ka PO
> > > files in order to branch. both PO files have been removed from the
> > > LINGUAS list (they are present in the tarball for 2.28.0, as the tarball
> > > was prepared from master before branching).
> > 
> > If you fuzzy the strings, why removing the languages from the LINGUAS
> > list?
> 
> because then I'd have some feedback, possibly something that stays in
> the archives if this happens to another maintainer. :-)
> 
> both PO files contained a msgfmt syntax error in the plural forms for a
> string. if it's just a problem with ownership or with execution bits I
> usually fix this stuff myself, but for a broken PO file I'd like the
> translators to work out the correct fix before I make a mess out of it.
> 
> in this case, fuzzying the strings was the only thing that worked (and I
> really didn't want to do it because I might know something about PO
> files but I might also screw up stuff). what I would have preferred was
> that the pre-push script checked the list of translations from the
> po/LINGUAS file, so that broken translations can just be put in a
> "frozen" state by removing them from the list.

Well, this is only a temporary problem as current git hook doesn't let
you push a po file which does'nt pass msgfmt.
For existing invalid po files, the best solution would be to fuzzy
culprit strings and open bug reports against the corresponding language
in l10n Bugzilla product.

Cheers,

Claude