Changes to ubuntu-docs build

[Matthew East]

On 29 August 2011 20:11, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 29 August 2011 20:41, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 29 August 2011 15:04, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> On 29 August 2011 18:41, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> Have you worked with ubuntu language pack folks to ensure any necessary
>>>> adjustments are made there too?
>>>
>>> The language pack links are all created automatically during the
>>> package build by the pkgbinarymangler tool. This will need to be
>>> updated to reflect the new location for Gnome and Ubuntu help. Having
>>> said that it could already be working, I'll look into whether this is
>>> the case and if not I'll poke Martin to update it.
>>
>> Kyle & Matthew, thanks for looking into this.
>>
>> How can we ensure that itstool is used instead of intltool? How does
>> the potfile get made normally? Is it manual or automatic?
>> pkgbinarymanagler may just need to be extended for itstool as more
>> GNOME apps will be using itstool for help and using the Mallard
>> comments.
>
> pkgbinarymangler doesn't affect the pot or po files. Those are taken
> care of by the Gnome build mechanism. I don't know whether this has
> also been updated to use itstool - this will also need to be something
> that we look into prior to Documentation String Freeze.

This is working ok. Itstool is giving up a lot of errors when creating
the translated documentation, but the resulting documents look ok. I
will investigate the error messages with shaunm.

-- 
Matthew East
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