Script for backporting translations

Håvard_Korsvoll · External Since: May 09, 2004 Posts: 6

Hi list

I am looking for a script that can backport translations from the latest
version to a production version. This is needed for the skolelinux
project. We are now releasing the etch version, and KDE will be at 3.5.5
for a long time.

The translator are working on the HEAD of KDE, now 3.5.8 I think. So we
want to be able to update fixes in the translation back to 3.5.5. This
is very important since most of the translation errors are discovered by
the users, and we need a system to update translations in the production
version of skolelinux.

To avoid double work, we will only update the latest translations when
we find errors, and then backport it back to production version.

When there are strings with errors that are no longer available in the
HEAD, we of course need to fix it in the 3.5.5 version only.

The backport script need to do this:

- Merge HEAD.po with STABLE.po with these rules:
1 If msgid's are equal and msgstr's are different => use msgstr
from HEAD.po
2 Any msgid in STABLE.po that are not in HEAD.po should be left
with its current msgstr.
3 Any msgid in HEAD.po that are not in STABLE.po should be
discarded.

Point 1 could be done with msgmerge -U HEAD.po STABLE.po. But it
clutters point 2 since it don't look at the msgstr in STABLE.po.

Are there anyone who can help?

Håvard

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Daniel Nylander · External Since: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 14

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Håvard Korsvoll skrev:

> - Merge HEAD.po with STABLE.po with these rules:
> 1 If msgid's are equal and msgstr's are different => use msgstr
> from HEAD.po
> 2 Any msgid in STABLE.po that are not in HEAD.po should be left
> with its current msgstr.
> 3 Any msgid in HEAD.po that are not in STABLE.po should be
> discarded.
>
> Point 1 could be done with msgmerge -U HEAD.po STABLE.po. But it
> clutters point 2 since it don't look at the msgstr in STABLE.po.
>
> Are there anyone who can help?

I might be a bit slow here but what benefits would 2 and 3 give you?

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Håvard_Korsvoll · External Since: May 09, 2004 Posts: 6

Daniel Nylander skreiv:
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> Håvard Korsvoll skrev:
>
>> - Merge HEAD.po with STABLE.po with these rules:
>> 1 If msgid's are equal and msgstr's are different => use msgstr
>> from HEAD.po
>> 2 Any msgid in STABLE.po that are not in HEAD.po should be left
>> with its current msgstr.
>> 3 Any msgid in HEAD.po that are not in STABLE.po should be
>> discarded.
>>
>> Point 1 could be done with msgmerge -U HEAD.po STABLE.po. But it
>> clutters point 2 since it don't look at the msgstr in STABLE.po.
>>
>> Are there anyone who can help?
>
> I might be a bit slow here but what benefits would 2 and 3 give you?

Well, if I use msgmerge as I suggest, and there has been a change in the
msgid between STABLE and HEAD. STABLE will end up with an empty or fuzzy
translation of that string since it doesn't find that msgid in HEAD.
This is wrong since the translation may be perfectly valid for the
STABLE version.

Håvard

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Håvard_Korsvoll · External Since: May 09, 2004 Posts: 6

Christian Perrier skreiv:
>> - Merge HEAD.po with STABLE.po with these rules:
>> 1 If msgid's are equal and msgstr's are different => use msgstr
>> from HEAD.po
>> 2 Any msgid in STABLE.po that are not in HEAD.po should be left
>> with its current msgstr.
>> 3 Any msgid in HEAD.po that are not in STABLE.po should be
>> discarded.
>
>
> I would do this this way:
>
> msgcat --use-first HEAD.po STABLE.po >merged.po
> msgmerge -U merged.po STABLE.pot
> msgattrib --no-obsolete merged.po >RESULT.po
>

Thank you. This will do I think Smile

Håvard

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