Re: [COMMITTED] Update Translations

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 1/17/20 11:59 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 17/01/20 9:45 am, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> > Revert done, only translations where the file seems newer have been
> > retained:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=def9c08c94da60bfb746644d56cffbe7a9de3477
>
> OK so I had a chat with the translation project coordinator about this
> and he told me that one needs to run msgmerge on the downloaded po files
> to get the updated po files.
>
> I read the Release wiki page and it looks like it was updated to add
> another little scriptlet to download translations from a different
> page[1].  Benno confirmed that those have been obtained by using
> msgmerge, so we could either run the scriptlet or fix the
> update-translations target to run msgmerge --no-wrap --previous.
>
> I've done the latter and it seems to produce correct results now.  I'll
> share the Makefile update shortly.
>
> Siddhesh
>
> [1] https://translationproject.org/domain/libc.html

This has been a confusing part of the release process for me for a
long time. It hasn't been exactly clear what process we're supposed
to follow. If you have a clear process we should update to match.

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Cheers,
Carlos.