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[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:49:14PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: 
> * translator point of view: when a maintainer updates all the po files
> in a module, it doesn't bring anything, and potentially ruins some
> translator work. The updated po files shouldn't be committed.
> 
> * developer point of view: a tarball content must exactly match what is
> tagged in CVS. The updated po files must be committed, or the build
> tools must be fixed not to modify those po files (the build tools still
> need to check the validity of those files though).

There's another issue isn't there - if you never commit the modified
po files, when do the line numbers etc. in the po files ever get
updated? Do translators always do that themselves when they update a
translation?

The idea of having this in distcheck I think was so someone could take
the po files from the tarball and have up-to-date strings and line
numbers and do a translation.

Havoc