Translating Debian Package Descriptions

[Andreas Mauser]

Hi,

Michael Vogt schrieb:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:57:17PM +0100, Jochen Skulj wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>     
> Hi,
>  
>   
>> I am just trying to understand how those Debian package descriptions
>> which are shown when using apt-cache are translated in Ubuntu. Naively I
>> assume that these package descriptions are imported from ddtp.debian.net
>> into Launchpad, can be translated or adapted in Launchpad an these
>> Launchpad translations will be delivered to the users via language
>> packs.Is this idea correct or am I totally wrong? If I am wrong I would
>> like to know how this process works.
>>
>> Currently we - the German Ubuntu Translators - have this problem: a user
>> reported that the German translation of a package translation which are
>> shown by apt-cache is inappropriate. While taking a closer look on this
>> issue we found out two things:
>>
>> (1) The translation the user told us can't be found on Launchpad. The
>> user criticises that in the package description of aircrack-ng the term
>> "WEP/WPA-Knacker" is used. Although this seems to be the case in
>> ddtp.debian.net the translation on Launchpad [1] is different and
>> doesn't contain "Knacker".
>>     
>
> Thanks to Gabor Kelemen for already covering most of the above points
> in his mail. Personally I'm not happy with the huge termplate for the
> translation, but its the best we have at this point. There is a
> launchpad spec pending to break it down and move the translation into
> each individual package as a additional "ddtp-description .pot" (or
> something). But that seems to be not progressing. 
>
> Nightmonkey is wonderful to help with organizing the strings, I would
> recommend anyone doing package description translations to use it :)
>  
>   
>> (2) On our machines the package description are not translated at all. I
>> verified this on two machines running Jaunty and apt-cache only shows
>> English package descriptions. How can it happen that some users have
>> translated package descriptions and others not?
>>     
>
> It will download the required translation data for your locale on
> apt-get update. So if you run with german locales all the time you
> should have it (german locales system-wide that is). The possible
> failures I can see:
>  - german is not the system-wide language (just a gdm setting)
>
> If you could mail me the output of:
> $ cat /etc/default/locale
> $ ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*Translation*
> that would help me diagnosing the problem.
>   
cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"

ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*Translation*
/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_i18n_Translation-de
/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_multiverse_i18n_Translation-de
/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_restricted_i18n_Translation-de
/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_universe_i18n_Translation-de

Regards,
Andreas.
> Cheers,
>  Michael
>
>   

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