Patches and translations

Posted by Chris Wilson on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Chris Wilson
Published on 2011-01-21T13:09:50Z Indexed on 2011/01/31 15:34 UTC
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When changing a string of text as a part of a patch, how should the translation in the .po files be handled? For example, a recent paper cut I've worked on involved changing the string "Reboot Anyway" to "Restart Anyway" when gnome-session detected applications still running during restart. When I greped for the offending string, I found not only the string on the Gtk button, but identical strings in a long list of .po files which I later learned contained translations.

The format of these translations of along the lines of

msgid:Reboot Anyway
<translated text>

Changing the text of only the button would results in a discrepancy between the text on the English button and the translation, and changing the msgid line would result in a similar situation. How should I raise the issue that new translations are needed? I know this is a trivial problem in this example, but there are other such bugs that involve rewriting entire paragraphs of text.

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