[Pkg-isocodes-devel] r1314 - trunk/iso-codes

[Tobias Toedter]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:13:04 +0100
Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:

> Quoting toddy-guest at alioth.debian.org (toddy-guest at alioth.debian.org):
> 
> > -		mv tmpfile $$pofile; \
> > +		msgattrib --no-obsolete tmpfile > $$pofile; \
> 
> 
> Hmmmm, I usually consider this bad practice (removing "obsolete"
> entries) . Retaining old entries in PO files may be useful in general
> as they are used in fuzzy matching and thus become useful when new
> similar strings reappear.
> 
> Of course, one could object that fuzzy matching in our files is
> usually not very efficient anyway and sometimes leads to funny entries
> in translations.

Yes, I agree with you. Normally, I do keep "obsolete" entries in po files,
as they can be valuable, as you pointed out.

However, in this specific case the fuzzy matching does not seem to provide
very useful results, but rather confusing entries. We do not have msgids
which are sentences, but almost always just a single word, sometimes two or
three. Therefore, the algorithm of the fuzzy matching has no realistic
chance of finding a proper translation.

If you think that this is wrong, I'll revert the removal of those obsolete
entries. However, I still think that translators will not have more work to
do because of that missing data.

Regards,
Tobias

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