p-d-e doesn't support building translated help
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Translations |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
python-distutils-extra |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently p-d-e does not support building localized application help. There are several applications[1] which use p-d-e and have user help, but the help is currently not translatable using this build system.
Features needed to be supported:
- building a help pot file to be translated.
- merging po translations into xml documentation, using itstool for mallard and xml2po for docbook.
- validate merged translations with xmllint. Help usually contains a lot of xml, which translators tend to mess up, reporting such cases would be nice.
- (un)installing translated xml files and translated figures under standard help paths - build_help already does this for the C language code
- optionally: merging existing po translations under $help_dir/$ll into the new pot file. Launchpad can do this for us, and Damned-lies does this for upstream Gnome too, but there may be folks out there not using these tools.
For autotools, this script does the magic:
http://
[1]: for example software-center, language-selector, usb-creator
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
importance: | High → Medium |