Changes to ubuntu-docs build

[Kyle Nitzsche]

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.

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).
>