[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#588962: po4a using both builddir and srcdir

[David Prévot]

Hi,

Le 14/05/2012 19:50, Roger Leigh a écrit :

> I've been working on #588962 to implement po4a for the schroot
> documentation.

Thanks Roger!

>   http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot_1.5.1.orig.tar.xz

I guess you actually meant:

	http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot-1.5.2.tar.xz

> - I'm getting a "translated" directory in both the source
>   directory and build directory
>   (man/translated/fr and debian/build/man/translated/fr).
>   It's a bug to dirty the source tree--I really only want
>   them generating in the build tree.
>   I set srcdir and destdir, but I'm not sure if I'm doing the
>   right thing (see: man/Makefile.am update-po rule).

I can't see what's wrong at first sight, adding the po4a-devel list in
the loop in case we're missing something. The actual call is:

[ -n "$(PO4A)" ] && $(PO4A) --package-name $(PACKAGE) --package-version
$(VERSION) --copyright-holder "Roger Leigh <rleigh at debian.org>"
"--srcdir=$(srcdir)" "--destdir=$(builddir)" "$(srcdir)/po4a.cfg"

Indeed, simply running “po4a --destdir=../debian/build/man/ po4a.cfg”
from the man directory builds everything where expected (even with
“--srcdir=.”), but when run from the root directory, it builds them in
both the --srcdir and the --destdir, so it may be a bug in po4a. As a
workaround, you could remove the sloppy man/translated directory in the
update-po rule, after the po4a call.

> - The fr manpages are output in UTF-8.  The man program results
>   in readable output, but the PDF/PS documentation looks awful
>   due to lots of junk in the output.
>   While UTF-8 is fine in the .po file, would recoding to latin1
>   or into groff symbols for non-ASCII characters be feasible?

Charset of the files containing the localized documents can be change
with the -L option of po4a, but, there is better:

>   Or can groff now process UTF-8 input?

“groff -k -KUTF-8” seems to do the work quite nicely.

Regards

David


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