Package: lintian Version: 2.5.5 Hi,
I have spent a few hours looking at using po4a to allow tag descriptions to be localized[0]. The results are available in the "tag-info-l10n" branch in my personal git repository[1]. po4a does not yet have proper support for Debian control files, but hopefully it will get that with the next upload (related bug #663148). For now, I use an ad-hoc po4a plugin to parse the desc files. I suspect my ad-hoc plugin produces different po-files than the "future" dctrl parser in po4a will. Therefore, I do not think we should accept translations/merge the branch just yet. :) Only the tag descriptions are translated. The po files in the branch include the Tag-field, but mainly because A) I rely the Tag-field for "merging" the translation with the (remaining) tag data and B) I was too lazy to do the relevant transformations in my prototype. I only added support for translations in lintian-info (read: I was lazy). It can be tested by using lintian-info with the "new" --lang argument: """ $ LINTIAN_ROOT=. frontend/lintian-info -t \ package-depends-on-lower-priority-package [... std text ...] $ LINTIAN_ROOT=. frontend/lintian-info --lang da -t \ package-depends-on-lower-priority-package [...] N: Pakken afhænger af en pakke med lavere prioritet end den selv. N: N: Bemærk: Dette tjek er begrænset til pakker lavet fra samme kilde N: pakke. Et fuldt tjek af pakke lavet fra andre kilde pakker [...] N: Lintian's kapacitet. Servicen depcheck gøre dette. [...] """ Note that I only "translated" 3 or so strings (out of 961), so you will want to pick one of those 3 tags for the test. :) The translated desc is not included in the branch, but can be generated by running: """ $ debian/rules update-po """ It will give a lot of "discard $file" since most of them are below po4a's (or gettext's?) ">= 80% translated" treshold. ~Niels [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2010/08/msg00012.html [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/tag-info-l10n -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
