[Alexandria-i18n-list] 0.6.2 string freeze
CHIKAMA Masaki
masaki.chikama at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 07:46:34 EST 2007
2007/12/19, Cathal Mc Ginley <cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org>:
> > but it should have
> > "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
> > and PACKAGE VERSION should be automatically replaced real version number
> > when creating {lang}.po file.
>
> This would work when creating a new po file, but updated values wouldn't copy
> across when using msgmerge (I tried it).
>
> I think the translators should probably update the value when they're
> translating for a particular release; so if the string-freeze is for
> 0.6.2 you'd change it to:
> "Project-Id-Version: alexandria 0.6.2\n"
> just before you check-in or e-mail the po file.
>
> That way, for unmaintained translations, we'll know what version of the
> program was last translated for that language. (Because if I updated the
> version number for e.g. the fr translation to 0.6.2 when I merged all
> the po files, future maintainers might think a translator had been
> working on the 0.6.2 fr translation - in fact, fr is unmaintained).
Thank you for clearing it and sorry for confusing everyone to
give vague and inaccurate information.
I'll keep in mind to update my file.
Thanks.
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CHIKAMA Masaki
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