Bug#261086: This bug (switch to po-debconf for gdm) should be fixed, really

[Martin Quinson]

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I beg to strongly disagree with Martin=A0: this bug should be fixed. The
> consequence of not fixing it is actually that noone cares about
> translating the templates for this package, which is quite widely
> used.

If so, you should work on translating the xdm templates. They *should*
integrate the gdm package soonish.

> Of course, gdm uses the same templates than xdm and, indeed, the way
> such things are currently handled is not very appropriate (common
> templates should go in specific "templates-only" packages). But,
> having gettext'ed templates would cvertainly strongly improve the
> quality of gdm translation for templates.

Again, true if you do the work on xdm. And since it's already done
(http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/pot#xfree86), there is no need
for that. Dupplicating the work for gdm won't help anyone.

You are the one pesting about apache related packages dupplicating the
templates over and over. The ?dm packages don't. I agree that copying
templates from one (gettextized) package to another is not really kasher,
and that we should work on a solution to ease the template sharing in
debconf, but until we come out with a working solution, I'd prefer gdm to
stay as is.


Erm. Not exactly, indeed.=20

Looking at the stats, xfree templates have the following stats:

debian/po/pt_BR.po!pt_BR!158t0f0u!debian/po/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-11_pt_BR.p=
o!André
Lu&#237;s Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>!Debian-BR Project
<debian-l10n-portuguese@lists.debian.org>
 debian/po/gl.po!gl!41t26f91u!debian/po/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-11_gl.po

cs!158t0f0u
es!137t7f14u
fr!158t0f0u
nl!158t0f0u
pl!9t5f144u
it!158t0f0u
ca!151t0f7u
da!158t0f0u
tr!151t0f7u
ru!140t5f13u
sv!35t24f99u
de!151t0f7u
ja!158t0f0u
el!145t2f11u

And gdm have the following stats:
de!1t0f2u
tr!1t0f2u
es!1t0f2u
fr!1t0f2u
el!1t0f2u
ru!1t0f2u
ja!1t0f2u
nl!1t0f2u
it!1t0f2u
cs!1t0f2u
ca!1t0f2u
sv!1t0f2u
da!1t0f2u
pl!1t0f2u
pt_BR!1t0f2u

Oh well. Please Ryan, could you update those templates (ie, steal the modern
translations of what you need from the xfree package)?

A semi-automatic way of doing this update on xfree upload would solve
Christian's issue, I guess.


Thanks for your time,=20
mt.

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