[pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib (3 files)

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 17:14:39 EDT 2007


2007/3/11, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On 3/11/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/3/11, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>:
> > >     Date: Sunday, March 11, 2007 @ 16:53:51
> > >   Author: dan
> > >     Path: /home/cvs-pacman/pacman-lib
> > >
> > >    Added: src/pacman/po/ru_RU.po (1.1)
> > > Modified: doc/pacman.8 (1.8 -> 1.9) src/pacman/po/LINGUAS (1.4 -> 1.5)
> > >
> > > * Added Russian language translation. Thanks!
> > >   Вам Зачем <4rayven at gmail.com>
> >
> > Note that Вам Зачем is not a real Russian name (it's not a name at
> > all), just FYI.
>
> Haha, thanks then. I just figured it was because it is in the place a
> name normally goes. I cannot read Russian. :) What should I be
> putting?

Dunno, ask the author. I guess Вам Зачем is his nick, however it
roughly translates like "why do you need". :-)

> >
> > > * Updated manpage to document --cachedir and --dbpath options.
> >
> > I'm confused here. Is it ok to update manpages during string freeze?
> > I guess the difference between updating manpages and strings is that
> > when string will be changed and not updated - it will be displayed in
> > English, so updating it during freeze is not allowed, right?
>
> "Strings" are the messages that make it into the po files. Since as
> far as I know no one has been translating the manpages (correct me if
> I am wrong), I wasn't as concerned about updating them to be full
> documentation, because it won't break any translations which is the
> real reason behind a string freeze.

Oh, I just thought there are at least one manpage translation. :)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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