On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:48:39PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:15:37PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:44:06PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Translators should work from CVS preferably; the pot and po files in CVS > > > are > > > up to date. > > > > Huh? You fixed CVS when reading this bugreport, but it was outdated > > as well, so it would not have helped at all. Please fix apt building > > so that apt-all.pot is updated when packages are built, otherwise this > > problem will reappear. > > Perhaps it should just be removed from the source tarball. I would rather > that translators work from CVS, since otherwise the translations are almost > never up to date.
There is even a better solution: 1 or 2 weeks before a release, send to people listed as Last-Translator a revised version of their PO file. Some developers have recently chosen this way, and AFAICT it makes everyone happy. This is also how GNU developers work with the Free Translation Project. No offense in mind, but removing POT file does not solve any problem. If translators do not know where to find CVS sources, they will update their PO file shipped in the source tarball. The POT file is valuable, for instance it helped to show in this case that something went wrong. Denis
