Changes to ubuntu-docs build

[Kyle Nitzsche]

On 08/31/2011 10:43 AM, Matthew East wrote:
> That's correct, and consistent with what I said earlier in the thread
> (you can trust me on these things!),

I don't even trust my cat when he tells me he's my cat.  ;)



>   except that we primarily use the
> bzr branch exports for translations, rather than the source package.
>
> So it is enough that the pot file has been updated in the branch
> (which Jeremy has done).
>
> (Apologies for top posting)
>
>
>
> On 31/08/2011, Kyle Nitzsche<kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com>  wrote:
>> On 08/31/2011 09:27 AM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Can you say whether on src pkg upload LP tries to generate an up-to-date
>>> pot
>>> file  for use in LP translations per the conversation below? I thought it
>>> did
>>> but perhaps I am wrong.
>> So, I heard from David and I think the simple answer is that when the src
>> pkg is
>> uploaded, it is built and the process of building the package should
>> generate
>> the pot file. So LP doesn't need to do anything special. The src pkg does
>> need
>> to generate the pot on build.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kyle
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>> On 08/30/2011 12:36 PM, Matthew East wrote:
>>>> On 30 August 2011 14:33, Kyle Nitzsche<kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 08/29/2011 03:41 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>>>>>> How can we ensure that itstool is used instead of intltool? How does
>>>>>> the potfile get made normally? Is it manual or automatic?
>>>>> It should be doable automatically, and LP needs to support the
>>>>> technique. My
>>>>> understanding (high level) is that when a source pkg is uploaded, its
>>>>> pot
>>>>> file is updated automatically. It is then used to update the set of
>>>>> current
>>>>> translations in Launchpad for the source pkg. Some (probably small)
>>>>> small
>>>>> code may need to be implemented on LP for this new tool. You might want
>>>>> to
>>>>> contact the LP team.
>>>> Launchpad doesn't create pot files automatically. It is up to us to
>>>> generate them in the bzr branch. Once that is done the translations
>>>> are automatically synched to Launchpad.
>>>>
>>>> (Given that we now use translations in the upstream project rather
>>>> than on the Ubuntu project - for those packages which use translations
>>>> on the Ubuntu project, the pot file has to be generated before the
>>>> source package is uploaded or as part of the binary package build
>>>> process).
>>>>
>>>
>>
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