Re: Bison translations are out of date

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:51-0700, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Trond Endrestøl <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > It seems a new version of GNU Bison has been released, 2.3.
> > Yet the Translation Project has only the template file for 2.2.
>
> That's not too surprising, as 2.3 came out only two days ago.  Also,
> 2.2 and 2.3 have identical English messages, so there's no real need
> to update the .pot file for this particular version.

I see, but that's not obvious to the casual and fast surfing user.

> > Further it seems you're distributing my Norwegian translation
> > corresponding to version 2.0, dated 01 March 2005, despite the fact
> > that my translation for 2.2 was submitted to the Translation Project
> > on 22 May 2006.
>
> Bison's bootstrap procedure
> <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/bison/bootstrap?root=bison&view=markup>
> got that translation automatically from
> <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/bison/nb.po>, which is
> still your old version, dated 2005-03-01.

That's very strange. Although I've submitted my latest translation
twice, I haven't received any confirmation from the TP-Robot.
I guess the system is dead at the moment.

> Apparently the Translation Project is no longer updating the Bison
> distribution directory?

So it seems, and the FTP mirror at ftp://ftp.unex.es/pub/gnu-i18n/po/
is in an even worse state.

> If not, then what is the currently recommended procedure for the
> Bison maintainers to automatically slurp all the .po files for bison
> (and for bison-runtime)?

Beats me, I'm just the translator. ;-)

> I'll CC: this message to address@hidden, since there's
> not much I can do on this end.

> Thanks for reporting the problem.

N.P.


Trond.

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