For the bot — keeping the quote for the rationale Le 30/12/2011 09:53, David Prévot a écrit : > Hi Martin, > > Answering on debian-i18n since your question (and the answers) might be > of everyone's interest there. Quoting everything first. > > Le 30/12/2011 00:01, Martin Eberhard Schauer a écrit : >> Dear David, >> >> thank you very much for improving the po4a coordination pages. >> >> I'm sorry to say that I'm the origin of a special case that seems not to be >> covered (yet). >> >> Both the French and the German manpages are completely translated (1). >> The French translation is listed correctly (2) as done, the German >> pretends to be available (3), but is already fixed upstream (4). >> >> A little bit more abstract: The case not (yet) covered is >> - Debian maintainer is upstream >> - upstream has "outsourced" translation work (here: translation project) >> - translations in several states >> * already packaged in Debian (fr) >> -> correctly marked as translated >> * committed to upstream repository, not yet packaged (de) >> -> marked as available for translation. >> >> I think the case is too special for scripting a solution. What would be >> an appropriate workaround. Filing a dummy ITT on the coordination >> pages? >> >> Cheers, >> Martin >> >> 1: http://translationproject.org/domain/man-db-manpages.html >> 2: http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po4a/fr >> 3: http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po4a/de >> 4: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624096 > > HOLD can be used for this kind of thing: “Used to put a translation on > hold, when the original version has changed but there is no need to > update the translation, e.g. you know other modifications will be done > soon on the translation and you don't want someone to update it too > quickly” [5], we use it in French for the installation-guide since the > PO file is not used by its translator and for ttf-cjk-compact because > this is a false positive [6]. > > 5: http://i18n.debian.net/debian-l10n/docs/robot/pseudo-urls.html > 6: http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/fr > > Anyway, for your special case, since there is already a bug report, that > will be closed once the new package will be uploaded, I'd simply notify > the bot with that information, with the following subject: > > [BTS#624096] po4a://man-db/fr.po > > Maybe this doc [5] would be better suited on the main website (w.d.o) by > the way, that would furthermore allow it to be available in many > languages (and thus, maybe better known by translators ;-). > > Regards > > David >
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