On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:05:40AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:

||  Hello Vincent
||
||  On 2006-12-15 Vincent Zweije wrote:
||  > File debian/po/templates.pot contains the following curious strings:
||  >
||  >     #. Type: boolean
||  >     #. Description
||  >     #: ../mysql-server-5.0.templates:8001
||  >     msgid "internal"
||  >     msgstr ""
||  >
||  >     #. Type: boolean
||  >     #. Description
||  >     #: ../mysql-server-5.0.templates:8001
||  >     msgid "Only internally used."
||  >     msgstr ""
||  >
||  > Fellow translator Thijs Kinkhorst mentions that these should probably
||  > "no longer be marked as translatable", hence this bugreport.
||
||  There strings are indeed only to make Debconf happy, they are not supposed
||  to be shown to a user in any situation.
||
||  Is there anything I can do to make that more obvious to translators?
||  A special flag like changing the text to "do not translate me"?

I don't know enough of the pot format to answer this (and I'm too lazy
to look it up). Maybe someone on the language list has any hints?

Suggest you keep Christian in the loop (though #403163).

Ciao.                                                         Vincent.
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