Bug#771249: Hacking pkg-grub/grub.git to allow po/* updates (Re: Bug#771249: Translation update)

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2014-12-07 at 12:22 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Colin, since the below has a significant impact on the packaging git
> workflow I won't take it any further without your input...
> 
> On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 19:06 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> > Please consider updating translations of grub2, as already provided by
> > translators since upstream released 2.02~beta2.
> 
> Sadly applying this patch is not as easy as it might seem, due to
> Tedious Packaging VCS Reasons(tm) :-/

I had another idea for how to solve this without messing around with
what the upstream branch contains, which is to create a parallel
po-tp.org and use that for the package build (this isn't too bad since
the po/* in git is basically a stub anyway).

I've pushed this to people/ijc/master-po-tp.org. IMHO this is more hacky
than the other solution but has the overriding benefit of not needing to
mess around with the meaning of upstream in git or the packaging
workflow and of being easily reversible.

I'm considering whether to upload something based on this approach in
-19 along with the updated debconf templates from the new EFI question
added in -18.

Ian.