Bugzilla Bug 55156

The po4a (po for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more
interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas
where they were not expected like documentation.

It's written in perl, and it's very modular, so you can easily add a new module
that extracts text strings and translates a new file format.

I suggest the app-text category

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=34136) [details]
The proposed ebuild

I only put the ~x86 flag because it's the only one where I could test the
ebuild, but the program itself is known to work in many architectures.

Things you probably want to change:
1. Use ${PN} and ${PV} inside SRC_URI, don't hardcode names or versions
2. What's the first line of src_compile doing?
3. Wrong copyright header -- as of ~yesterday we're "Gentoo Foundation"

Created an attachment (id=34146) [details]
Fixed ebuild

1. Now it uses ${PN} and ${PV} (HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI fixed)
2. What's the first line of src_compile doing? <- it was for debugging, now
it's removed
3. Copyright header changed to "Gentoo Foundation"

we can't use Gentoo Foundation yet, as we don't own yet own the copyrights

I've seen there are some recent ebuilds that already use "Gentoo Foundation"
(as  sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7). Then what's the right form?

skel.ebuild and everything in the tree uses Gentoo Foundation now. According to
cvs log it was a combination of vapier and agriffis doing the changes. For
example:

date: 2004/06/24 21:57:58;  author: agriffis;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
update copyright line: Gentoo Technologies => Gentoo Foundation

Created an attachment (id=35845) [details]
New version 0.17.1

This is a new ebuild for the last release of po4a. In this version we've
updated the build system to use Module::Build (and there are a lot of bug
fixes).

sorry bugwranglers, but i don't know much about po files and have no interest
in this package. please re-assign.

Created an attachment (id=37001) [details]
New version 0.17.2

New bug-fix release. It could be a pure version bump, if Alioth threw away the
damn numbers in the download url :(

Perl persons, is this ebuild done correctly (in the perl way of thinking)?

It needs gettext-0.13 or later

Created an attachment (id=38284) [details]
New version 0.18

Created an attachment (id=38370) [details]
New version 0.18.1

Can anyone explain to me how you depend on >= gettext 0.13 when it only goes up
to .12? why the dep on jade when it isn't referenced by any of the
documentation or deps? and then there's the missing dep...that breaks this
package...

OK, 'nuff ranting from the perl guy. Corrected ebuild forthcoming - would like
a sign off before committing (and would appreciate comments on the gettext
mismatching)

Created an attachment (id=40992) [details]
po4a-0.18.1.ebuild

Corrected deps (including typo in the actual dep line)

please ignore the commented out PN stuff - that was my using the wrong version
number and not realizing it

> Can anyone explain to me how you depend on >= gettext 0.13 when it only goes up to .12?

It wasn't in portage, but they are at version 0.14.1:
http://directory.fsf.org/localization/gettext.html

It needs 0.13 when installing in order to update its own translations. This is
why it depends on #47788 (that they have solved today)

> why the dep on jade when it isn't referenced by any of the documentation or deps?

The documented sp (James Clark's SGML parsing tools) dependency isn't in
portage, so I searched for a replacement:

$ qpkg -f /usr/bin/nsgmls
app-text/openjade *

And this is where this dep comes from ;)

> and then there's the missing dep...that breaks this package...

Are you talking about dev-perl/libintl-perl? This dependancy was removed in
0.18 (but we didn't document it :( ). It shouldn't break anything now.

I hope it cleared some things :P

yes, thank you :)

ok, so as soon as the newer gettext is available this should be doable (though I had no problems on this end with what is in portage currently - current as of the third that is)

Created an attachment (id=43634) [details]
po4a-0.19.ebuild

New release.

app-text/po4a