[Debian-l10n-devel] Hard-coded Churro legacy

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

 > Hello folks,
 >
 > All Debian i18n services have been moved out of the good old "churro"
 > machine. As of now, this server therefore doesn't host any Debian
 > service anymore.

Hi folks,

I wonder why nobody has not complained yet about the hard-coded Churro 
legacy.
Up to now there are references to ddtp.debian.net in the DDTP/DDTSS code 
with
definitely three, perhaps up to five side effects:

  * Descriptions with prior translations such as (1) list
    "# other Descriptions of the syslinux package with a translation in de:"
    with references to ddtp.debian.net.
  * In (1) the "information about previous translation" form is empty.
  * The mail interface sends responses with links to ddtp.debian.net.

There are two more issues that might by related, but are less obvious:

  * The translation statistics at (2) pretend that at present there are no
    active translations.
  * The generation of the Translation-xx files (eg at (3)) seems to be 
broken
    with regard to retranslations. Commits via DDTSS/mail propagate to
    next day's Translation-xx, unchanged descriptions for new package
    versions do not. One example: tzdata. For some reason one gets an
    up to date (German) translation in the package search (4) and the
    DDTP database (5), but »grep 'Package: tzdata' Translation-de« on
    my local copy of Translation-de fails.

Kind regards,
    Martin


1: http://ddtp.kleptog.org/ddtss/index.cgi/de/forreview/syslinux?1401282102
2: http://ddtp.kleptog.org/
3: http://ftp.debian.de/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/Translation-de.diff/
4: 
https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=tzdata
5: http://ddtp.kleptog.org/ddt.cgi?desc_id=33867 (tzdata)