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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Default claim: "as the PACKAGE package"
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-06-14 23:13:22
Message-ID: 2362589.GxLJJGWbLR () xps
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El divendres, 3 de juny de 2016, a les 1:18:32 CEST, Frederik Schwarzer va 
escriure:
> Am 29.05.2016 23:10 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > El diumenge, 29 de maig de 2016, a les 21:19:06 CEST, Burkhard Lück va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >> Am Sonntag, 29. Mai 2016, 20:44:25 CEST schrieb Frederik Schwarzer:
> >> > Am 29.05.2016 19:56 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> >> > > In trunk kf5 we have 1221 gui catalogs, but only 37 german gui
> >> > > catalogs
> >> > > have a
> >> > > header line starting with "This file is distributed", no clue why.
> >> > 
> >> > A few years ago, I wrote a little cleanup script that got rid of those
> >> > lines.
> >> 
> >> That obviously qualifies you to replace 'PACKAGE package' string with
> >> 'current package' in all four branches and all languages as requested
> >> by
> >> Maximiliano Curia
> > 
> > Maybe it's better if we remove them all and make sure the .pot files
> > don't
> > have it either and/or just point people to the policy on the wiki¿?
> 
> The first few lines of PO files are a bit tricky. Some developers and/or
> translators put text in there to communicate things with (other)
> translators or just add hand-crafted copyright strings. Also tools like
> Ubuntu's Rosetta put custom strings there and we import those files if
> an application moves to our infrastructure. So while PO files contain a
> lot of useless stuff within the fist few lines, there's still stuff in
> there that should be kept. And it's hard to just mess with that in a
> scripted manner.
> 
> If we just remove the lines in question:
>      # Copyright (C) YEAR This_file_is_part_of_KDE
>      # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE
> package.
> they probably have to be removed regularily, if it is not possible to
> tell gettext not to create them. So the daily scripty run would have to
> check for that. ... ... Not sure if it is an important enough matter to
> put that extra bit onto the scripty run though.
> 
> A one-liner like
>      perl -i -n -e 'print unless $. < 5 && (/This_file_is_part_of_KDE$/
> 
> || /^# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE
> 
> package.$/)' filename.po
> or
>      perl -i -p -e 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/^# Copyright.*?#$/#/sm'
> filename.po (This removes from "# Copyright" to the next line with just
> '#' so do not do this blindly!)
> would remove those lines but many other lines like
>      # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
> or
>      # translation of de.po to Deutsch
> would still remain.
> 
> So, I guess it comes down to checking what gettext can do for us on file
> creation/update and then cleanup the rest with a few one-liners.

We control the creation of the file so if we need to replace something on the 
.pot files, that's also possible.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> Frederik


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