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--- Begin Message ---Package: po-debconf Version: 0.9.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, It's rather common in d-i for us to want to do things like this: _Choices: no ethernet card, ${CHOICES}, none of the above __Choices: Retry network autoconfiguration, Retry network autoconfiguration with a DHCP hostname, Configure network manually, ${wifireconf}, Do not configure the network at this time __Choices: /dos, /windows, Enter manually, Do not mount it The first is particularly nasty, since translators have to know to accurately transcribe the ${...} substitution, and in practice people often get this wrong in ways that are hard to test and the situation has to be corrected by clever searching tools. The second is not so bad (as one might expect from __Choices), but it still results in msgids that must be translated to the exact same msgstr (the ${...} substitution in one case, and the literal directory names in the other), so we have essentially the same resulting problems and it's still hard to test that the code will behave correctly no matter what the selected language is. I've seen various hacks around this, such as substituting the translated description of a separate text template into the choices list, and I've seen a number of resulting bugs from code that fails to translate back from the localised text into C that are extremely hard to track down. I think we could avoid a number of these problems, and get rid of some unnecessary load on translators, if there were a mechanism in po-debconf to declare that only some of the entries in a Choices list are to be translated. I appreciate that coming up with a reasonable syntax for declaring this might be tricky! Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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--- Begin Message ---Source: po-debconf Source-Version: 1.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of po-debconf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: po-debconf_1.0.dsc to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.dsc po-debconf_1.0.tar.gz to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0.tar.gz po-debconf_1.0_all.deb to pool/main/p/po-debconf/po-debconf_1.0_all.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated po-debconf package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:53:28 +0100 Source: po-debconf Binary: po-debconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: po-debconf - manage translated Debconf templates files with gettext Closes: 230838 330096 353436 354583 Changes: po-debconf (1.0) unstable; urgency=low . * debconf2pot: Drop this program, "debconf-updatepo --skip-merge" does the same job. . * po2debconf: Do no more run debconf-updatepo if outdated PO files are detected. po-debconf(7) already explains why this was not a good idea. . * debconf-gettextize: Cleanup, remove -l/-n/-o flags. * debconf-gettextize: Add a --choices flag to generate __Choices fields in the master template file. * debconf-gettextize: New --merge flag, to merge translations with existing PO files. . * Depend on intltool-debian >= 0.34.1+20060220. With this version, comments in the form '#flag:' are interpreted by debconf-updatepo and po2debconf. They are helpful when a translatable field is composed of several strings. Recognized keywords are: - #flag:translate: Write only the specified strings into PO files. Closes: #330096 Thanks Colin Watson. - #flag:comment: Comments can be defined for each individual string. - #flag:partial This flag prints translated strings even if they are not fully translated. Closes: #230838 Thanks Christian Perrier. See details in po-debconf(7). * This version of intltool-debian also ensures that po2debconf properly removes comments when they appear at the top or bottom of template files, which should not occur though. . * podebconf-display-po: Add support for Title type. Report and patch by Thomas Huriaux, thanks. Closes: #354583 . * podebconf-report-po: Sort PO files. . * Add Build-Depends-Indep: po4a. * Drop debian/README.Debian which was obsolete. . * Update documentation. * Update Russian documentation. Thanks to Yuri Kozlov. (Closes: #353436) * Partial update of French documentation. Files: e2648fba0b2f56ff2f33f8c6fbdaa8d8 515 devel optional po-debconf_1.0.dsc 210c4aab1486743fe3c8400c2325b8a7 109700 devel optional po-debconf_1.0.tar.gz bba77ca0497a08acf88a4bee498295e7 97348 devel optional po-debconf_1.0_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGH9T8Ri1lR4WGvsRAjkhAJ0bn4y5Y1Tpq7H6j99JxpSsKOTSZwCfQ74G PkqjhmuKrHyMaN6q9tVrfEE= =pbKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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