[Debian-zh-dev] where can I find APT's CVS source?

[Save.Tchai]

Hi, Ming Hua,
Thanks for your detailed steps. It is really helpful and instructive.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:41:37AM -0600 or thereabouts, Ming Hua wrote:
> Hi Tchaikov,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:12:45PM +0800, Save.Tchai wrote:
> > I got the pot file of APT via "apt-get source apt", and only to
> > find the file seems wrong (BTS#237892).                                                                                                                         
> 
> That shouldn't work.  Everything you get from "apt-get source" should be
> the released version (stable, testing, or unstable; depends on your
> /etc/apt/sources.list), so it's usually always outdated.
> 
> > I just wanna follow the maintainer(?)'s instruction:                            
> > >Translators should work from CVS preferably; the pot and po
> > >files in CVS are   
> > >up to date.                                                                    
> > but failed to find the CVS repository for APT.                                  
> >                                                                                 
> > btw. I've searched it in http://alioth.debian.org/ before this posting.
> 
> I'll tell the steps I took to find it, just to help someone that may be
> in similar situations:
> 
> 1. If you don't know that apt has a mailing list for itself, the package
> list page (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/apt, in the "APT
> Development Team" mailto: link, or "developer information for apt" link)
> should direct you there:
>     http://lists.debian.org/deity/
> 
> 2. In the archives of deity mailing list, I found the following helpful
> message:
>     http://lists.debian.org/deity/2004/deity-200403/msg00182.html
> 
> 3. And it leads me to
>     http://cvs.debian.org/
> Use the pull-down menu to choose deity, and you should be able to see
> the apt CVS archive.  According to the instruction on the webpage, the
> anonymous checking out command should be:
>     $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/deity checkout apt
> and the password is empty (just press Enter).  However I didn't test it,
> I suppose you know CVS good enough to figure things out.  Also, you can
> just use the ViewCVS web interface to download the POT or PO file.  If
> you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> 4. Since you don't have write access to cvs.debian.org CVS (I remember
> it's for DD only), I think the only way to fix it is submitting a
> translation patch.
> 
> Also, I found Christian Perrier's message about this issue:
>     http://lists.debian.org/deity/2004/deity-200403/msg00181.html
> I think it also helps (with a URL to see the PO files).
> 
> Hope this helps, and thanks for your work for Debian!
> 
> Cheers,
> Ming
> 2004.03.15
> 
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       Tchaikov