[Perkamon-devel] Bug#786525: Disruptive changes should be loudly announced

[Martin Quinson]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 05:14:20PM -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:39:33PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> 
> > You could even raise the gravity of that
> > bug to block the package transition to testing if you feel that this
> > change should be reverted.
> 
> Even if disruptive changes in the gettext/po4a toolchain (and underlined
> Perl handling) are always painful (one has to make sure every
> contributor is using the “right” version, the amount of changes in the
> PO files to cope with the upgrade can be huge), with my Debian packager
> hat on, I’d say that now (early in the development cycle) is exactly the
> right moment to make such change if it’s an improvement worthing the
> disruption.

I completely missed the point that such a change would be very
disruptive and thus not desirable when facing large text corpus. Sorry.
Again, I'll try to launch the build of manpages-fr to check my changes
before uploading. Not sure that I will manage to notice such massive
fuzzing, but I will try.

About this change, now. My current feeling is that it should be an
optional behavior. It is very possible to pass options to the PO4A
modules, so that users may choose how to handle tbl macros. David, do
you think that it would do the trick?

If so, I will do so in the next week (I'm currently out of town), but
if someone manages to prepare a patch before me, I'd be really
thankful.


Bye, Mt.

-- 
La joie d'apprendre est aussi indispensable aux études que la
respiration aux coureurs. -- Maria Montessori
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