Re: Use the translation domain "gnulib"

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> What would this tarball contain?  Just the translations?
> >
> > Just the POT file and the then-current translations. Try yourself:
> >   $ make gnulib-l10n-release
> 
> That seems to require gettext 0.23, so I didn't get a final tarball to
> look at.

With a 1-liner local change to gnulib-l10n/configure.ac (line 27) you
should be able to build the same thing with an older gettext release.

> > Note that Debian already has a number of pure localization packages [1]:
> ...
> > It is really not a new concept.
> 
> Yes but aren't all of those built from release tarballs with complete
> source code from the project, rather than a custom tarball for l10n
> purposes?

No. The packages

  cinnamon-l10n
  menu-l10n
  psi-l10n
  qt6-translations-l10n

are each built from a custom tarball for l10n purposes. See

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/cinnamon-l10n
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/menu-l10n
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/psi-l10n
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/qt6-translations-l10n

So, whatever problems you see for gnulib-l10n must already have been
handled / solved for the four packages above.

Bruno