Changes to ubuntu-docs build

[Kyle Nitzsche]

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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