[systemd-devel] unused translations in git

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 26.07.13 00:44, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> 2013/7/25 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> > On Mon, 22.07.13 05:51, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> so it seems to me, we use gettext to translate the PolicyKit policy
> >> files, but we do not actually enable/ship them, as the po files are
> >> not added to po/LINGUAS.
> >>
> >> Admittedly, it's currently only a single translation (Polish), so I
> >> was wondering what the intention here is. Do we want systemd to be
> >> translated? If so, should we reach out to translator get a broader
> >> coverage of languages?
> >
> > Well, I guess translation of the tools and PK policies is probably
> > inevitable. We should be careful though, for example, I'd rather not see
> > gettext being used within PID 1.
> >
> > l10n isn't really something I personally care about too much, so we rely
> > on community patches to make this work. Patches welcome.
> 
> Apparently we already have a translation, so I was curious, why we
> don't ship that in the tarball.
> Is that simply an oversight or does it have other reasons?

Oversight.

Lennart

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