#748716 l10n scripts should not look at upstream debian/ of source/format 3.0 (quilt) packages

#748716#5
Date:
2014-05-19 23:05:13 UTC
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Updated Portuguese translation for crossfire's debconf messages.
Translator: Américo Monteiro <a_monteiro@gmx.com>
Feel free to use it.

For translation updates please contact 'Last Translator' or the
Portuguese Translation Team <traduz at debianpt.org>.

#748716#10
Date:
2014-06-07 10:01:56 UTC
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forcemerge 748716 750810
reassign 748716 po-debconf
severity 748716 normal
tags 748716 - patch
retitle 748716 False debconf po templates reported for crossfire
thanks

Hi.  As discussed at
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2014-June/003372.html
, po-debconf somehow reports crossfire as having debconf templates,
despite having none.

Please reassign if po-debconf isn't the right package responsible for these.

#748716#39
Date:
2014-10-22 16:57:40 UTC
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Quoting Kari Pahula (kaol@debian.org):
The problem is similar to postfixadmin: the original tarball *does*
contain debconf templates and a debian/po/ directory.

The scripts that generate the material for l10n status pages do *not*
cope with the fact that the templates file as well as debian/po/ are
actually deleted when the Debian patches are applied.

It would help a lot if the upstream tarball had no debian/ directory
or, at least, no debian/templates and debian/po/ files and
directories.

Anyway, I blacklisted crossfire from the status pages which should
become effective....once the "gen-material" script works again as
expected (it is actually broken for a not-yet-know reason for about 10
days).

#748716#48
Date:
2014-10-22 18:15:56 UTC
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retitle 748716 l10n scripts should not look at upstream debian/ of source/format 3.0 (quilt) packages
submitter 748716 kaol@debian.org
thanks

That's every source/format 3.0 (quilt) package.  It would do well for
the l10n scripts to take that into account.

It would.  I can ask the upstream to do that but it's not something
any maintainer has direct control over, and this isn't (IMHO) a good
reason for repackaging upstream tarballs.  Not with 3.0 (quilt) taking
care of the situation.

Thank you.  This should take care crossfire's case, but I think this
situation points to a more generic solution and I'm retitling the bug
accordingly.

#748716#53
Date:
2017-02-21 17:29:18 UTC
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Looks like the problem that caused #855475 is already reported as bugs
#748716, #750810, #751685, #761092, #766265, if i'm to believe their
title "l10n scripts should not look at upstream debian/ …"

#748716#58
Date:
2017-03-13 22:57:26 UTC
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I'm closing this bug report (#857525) because it seems you've translated
a part of upstream that doesn't exist in the debian packages.  This is
the same situation as https://bugs.debian.org/855475, which i also
closed.

I think the fact that you did extra (unnecessary) labor was caused by a
bug in the l10n scripts tools (https://bugs.debian.org/748716), which
needs attention.

sorry that you did work that didn't need doing!

#748716#63
Date:
2017-09-19 14:47:01 UTC
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I'm closing this bug report (#876173) because it seems you've translated
a part of upstream that doesn't exist in the debian packages.  This is
the same situation as https://bugs.debian.org/855475 and
https://bugs.debian.org/857525, which i also closed.

I think the fact that you did extra (unnecessary) labor was caused by a
bug in the l10n scripts tools (https://bugs.debian.org/748716), which
needs attention.

sorry that you did work that didn't need doing!