[parted-devel] distcheck failure due to pot files

[Mario Blättermann]

Am 04.07.2014 20:15, schrieb Mario Blättermann:
> Am 23.06.2014 16:24, schrieb Jim Meyering:
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> I do have that package installed and it appears the failure happens
>>> just before that program is called:
>>>
>>> make[5]: Entering directory
>>> `/home/psusi/parted/parted-3.1.133-ae37/_build/doc/C'
>>> cd ../../../doc/C; \
>>>         test -w . || exit 0; \
>>>         for name in parted.8 partprobe.8; do \
>>>                 echo $name; \
>>>                 cp po/$name.pot po/$name.new.pot; \
>>
>> Good catch. I notice that you can avoid it by touching each file, as
>> done in the following, just-pushed patch.  However, the success or
>> failure of those commands currently does not impact the success of
>> "make dist", which is a bug.  Nor are the resulting files even
>> distributed, so one might argue that it's fine that the failure is
>> ignored.
>>
> Once this problem has been solved and the pot creation works again, then please
> consider to initialize a new domain at translationproject.org (e.g. named
> parted-man)to publish the pot file. Would be nice if we had the new i18n stuff
> prior to the next release. Probably we will get a new version in the nearest
> future: I've got a new pot template for the UI strings yesterday (and sent the
> updated file back), so I assume next month or so...?
> 
> Please ship the attached translation with the next parted version. The po file
> is based on the current pot file in Git (/parted/doc/C/parted-new.pot). Seems it
> contains strings from both parted.8 and partprobe.8, so no extra file for the
> latter is needed. Should this behavior change due to a different workflow for
> creating the template, I can split the po file again, no problem.
> 
BTW, the latest development version 3.1.90 doesn't ship the existing Brazilian
Portuguese translations at all. The directory doc/pt_BR doesn't contain any po
files, and that's why no po file can be processed, am I right...?

Best Regards.,
Mario