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Re: [PATCH] l10n: fr.po unfuzzy commented entries

From
Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>
Date
Feb 26, 2019, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID
<7020728.IPHcI6cZlJ@cayenne>
In-Reply-To
<871s3vwkvw.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Monday, 25 February 2019 23:42:11 CET Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 25 2019, Jean-Noël Avila wrote:
> 
> > The 0.14.4 gettext release was back in 2005, so presumably this is due
> > to some GPLv3 allergy of NetBSD's. The OS version itself is 7.1,
> > released a couple of years ago.
> 
> So this one pargaraph of commit message is just a paragraph from my
> E-Mail upthread, but out of context it's just confusing.
> 
Yes. More explanation.
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> > -#, fuzzy
> > +#
> >  #~| msgid "git archive [<options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"
> >  #~ msgid "git diff --no-index [<options>] <path> <path>"
> >  #~ msgstr "git archive [<options>] <arbre ou apparenté> [<chemin>...]"
> 
> This still results in the same issue. Sorry, by "unfuzzying" I thought
> you meant change these translations so they'd no longer be commented out
> and would actually have a translation.
> 
The thing is that there isn't two msgid lines, the first one being the previous value.
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> The problem is that there's two msgid lines, so e.g. this on top of
> yours "fixes" it:
> 
>      #
>     -#~| msgid "git archive [<options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"
>      #~ msgid "git diff --no-index [<options>] <path> <path>"
>      #~ msgstr "git archive [<options>] <arbre ou apparenté> [<chemin>...]"
> 
> But isn't a better fix on top of master just:
> 
>     sed -i '22477,$ d' po/fr.po
> 
> That results in 1500 lines removed from the end. I.e. what's the point
> of keeping those old now-unused translations around?
They can still be used as a translation memory for future approximate translations.
But, I guess it's safer to keep the translation memory out of this repo.
Will do.
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2019
  2. Jean-Noël AVILAFeb 25, 2019
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2019
  4. Jiang XinFeb 26, 2019
  5. l10n: fr.po unfuzzy commented entriesJean-Noël Avila, Feb 25, 2019
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2019
  7. Jean-Noël AVILAFeb 26, 2019
  8. l10n: fr.po remove obsolete entriesJean-Noël Avila, Feb 26, 2019
  9. Jiang XinFeb 27, 2019

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