[Aptitude-devel] Inconsistent help message

[Christian Perrier]

FWIW, I just subscribed to aptitude-devel.

And, actually, I just sent the following this morning proivately to
Daniel, but this could go in the list:


Daniel,

I have a problem with the po/ directory for aptitude...


You can see it with the log of fr.po for instance:

changeset:   1391:f65006c25a83
tag:         tip
user:        Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
date:        Sun Mar 30 09:38:34 2008 +0200
summary:     Restore fr.po with its 1148 strings and re-run "make aptitude.pot; make

changeset:   1381:2b232885ab60
user:        Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
date:        Sat Mar 29 07:56:45 2008 +0100
summary:     Re-update French translation but why are we going down to 1129 strings?

changeset:   1377:53c4de97b7fc
user:        Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org>
date:        Thu Mar 27 20:01:38 2008 -0700
summary:     Run "update-po".

changeset:   1368:af2772653967
user:        Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
date:        Wed Mar 26 08:22:16 2008 +0100
summary:     French translation update

changeset:   1367:4348ca32223d
user:        Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
date:        Tue Mar 25 19:20:05 2008 +0100
summary:     Regenerate PO(T) files after changes in source code


Let's take it in reverse order:

changeset:   1367:4348ca32223d
user:        Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
date:        Tue Mar 25 19:20:05 2008 +0100
summary:     Regenerate PO(T) files after changes in source code

Here, I copied all files from head/ in my build copy and ran:

"rm aptitude.pot ; make aptitude.pot ; make update-po"

...to be sure grabbing all strings from up-to-date source code.

This bumped the number of strings to 1148

Then:

changeset:   1368:af2772653967
user:        Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
date:        Wed Mar 26 08:22:16 2008 +0100
summary:     French translation update

I complelted the French translations to 1148t

Then:

changeset:   1377:53c4de97b7fc
user:        Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org>
date:        Thu Mar 27 20:01:38 2008 -0700
summary:     Run "update-po".

>>>The French translation went down to 1128t1u !

However, if, from files of "1377:53c4de97b7fc", I regenerated
aptitude.pot again in my build tree....I get 1148 strings again and
fr.po is 1147t1u (the change being a string where you used plural
forms).

The last two changesets were meant to grab back my complete
translation.


So, indeed, it appears that we're both playing ping-pong. For whatever
reason, when *you* update files in po/, the number of strings goes
down and we actually lose translations....

So, who is right, indeed?

Am I doing something wrong somewhere?



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