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Subject: Re: [WIP] localize guix.texi
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:00:05 +0100
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Hi,

julien lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Le 2018-03-05 10:08, ludo@gnu.org a =C3=A9crit :

[...]

>> I think this can be addressed by adding:
>>
>>   PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT =3D no
>>
>> in =E2=80=98Makevars=E2=80=99.  This variable is documented like this:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> # This tells whether or not to regenerate a PO file when $(DOMAIN).pot
>> # has changed.  Possible values are "yes" and "no".  Set this to no if
>> # the POT file is checked in the repository and the version control
>> # program ignores timestamps.
>> PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT =3D yes
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Well, since there's no pot file, it doesn't really help.

Oh, I thought po4a would generate a pot file from the texi source.

>> At worst, if .po files are committed and not systematically generated,
>> we can let translators handle this before they commit?
>
> I don't understand? The issue is when translators are not
> involved. IIUC in
> texinfo, the section name (reference) and title (displayed) are the
> same, so
> section names have to be translated. When someone makes a change to
> the English
> manual and adds a reference to an existing section, po4a cannot
> generate a
> translation, so it will leave it as is. So we will get a reference to
> an invalid
> section in the translated manuals and they will refuse to build.

Right, but the =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=9D in the sentence above corresponds to tr=
anslators,
right?  As long as only translators see the problem, that should be
fine.

> There is enough information in the po file though, so I think po4a can
> be
> improved (or we could add our own script for that).

Great.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.