[gdm3] Some proposed fixes concerning i18n

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Apr 9 09:38:32 UTC 2010


Le vendredi 09 avril 2010 à 11:36 +0200, Gert Michael Kulyk a écrit :
> That's not my point. I knew this before, that is why I was attaching not
> a patch but a po file for the desktop.in related translation. The
> attached patch is dealing with the translation of the newly introduced
> gdmsetup binary, which is debian specific and not maintained upstream. I
> think it is hard to maintain translations for distribution related
> changes in the upstream files, especially when upstream introduces
> string-changes, because it is very likely that you'll need to rework the
> patches manually to get the distribution related changes translated
> again.

Oh right, I hadn’t understood that.

For translations of newly-introduced strings in patches, we have an
existing solution in gnome-pkg-tools: a cdbs snippet named
path-translations.mk. 

Cheers,
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