• systemd-boot-installer: template message

    From Holger Wansing@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 25 22:50:01 2024
    Hi Luca,

    I just worked on translating the message strings for systemd-boot-installer into German.

    I stumbled on this message:

    #. Type: select
    #. Description
    #. :sl3:
    #: ../systemd-boot-installer.templates:3001
    msgid "Number of retries per boot entry (0 to disable):"
    msgstr ""


    I wonder, if this can/should be extended somehow:
    "Number of retries" - what happens there multiple times?
    Does the system try to boot multiple times in case of failures, or ... ?

    And what is "disabled" ?
    What does not happen then (or what happens instead) if function is disabled?

    Sorry, that I did not catch this before!


    Holger



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  • From Luca Boccassi@21:1/5 to Holger Wansing on Thu Jul 25 23:00:02 2024
    On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 21:28, Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hi Luca,

    I just worked on translating the message strings for systemd-boot-installer into German.

    I stumbled on this message:

    #. Type: select
    #. Description
    #. :sl3:
    #: ../systemd-boot-installer.templates:3001
    msgid "Number of retries per boot entry (0 to disable):"
    msgstr ""


    I wonder, if this can/should be extended somehow:
    "Number of retries" - what happens there multiple times?
    Does the system try to boot multiple times in case of failures, or ... ?

    And what is "disabled" ?
    What does not happen then (or what happens instead) if function is disabled?

    Sorry, that I did not catch this before!

    I should probably add a link to:

    https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT/

    where everything is explained in detail. Disabled means just that,
    this logic is disabled.

    Speaking of translations, do you happen to know why this bot keeps
    switching back from systemd-boot to grub? I've fixed a couple of times
    but it keeps putting it back:

    https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/systemd-boot-installer/-/commit/1ef1943af2ec6ce383c3dd9f57e1526df1eee096

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  • From Holger Wansing@21:1/5 to Luca Boccassi on Thu Jul 25 23:40:01 2024
    Hi,

    Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> wrote (Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:35:05 +0100):
    On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 21:28, Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hi Luca,

    I just worked on translating the message strings for systemd-boot-installer into German.

    I stumbled on this message:

    #. Type: select
    #. Description
    #. :sl3:
    #: ../systemd-boot-installer.templates:3001
    msgid "Number of retries per boot entry (0 to disable):"
    msgstr ""


    I wonder, if this can/should be extended somehow:
    "Number of retries" - what happens there multiple times?
    Does the system try to boot multiple times in case of failures, or ... ?

    And what is "disabled" ?
    What does not happen then (or what happens instead) if function is disabled?

    Sorry, that I did not catch this before!

    I should probably add a link to:

    https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT/

    where everything is explained in detail. Disabled means just that,
    this logic is disabled.

    We will probably need to change the message, so that translators (and users) get a chance, to know what the question is talking about :-)
    Will see...

    Speaking of translations, do you happen to know why this bot keeps
    switching back from systemd-boot to grub? I've fixed a couple of times
    but it keeps putting it back:

    https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/systemd-boot-installer/-/commit/1ef1943af2ec6ce383c3dd9f57e1526df1eee096

    This is normal. The 'bot' is just doing its job :-))

    The debian-installer is different compared to other packages, when it comes
    to translations.
    There is a script ("l10n-sync", you call it "the bot") running daily and managing all the translations files (po files) for all packages belonging
    to the installer (systemd-boot-installer is also a part of this group).

    The translator people are not working on the packages directly (for example, they don't work on po files in/from systemd-boot-installer), but on the so-called D-I PO MASTER FILES.
    You can find them here: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/-/tree/master/packages/po?ref_type=heads

    The messages from systemd-boot-installer can be found in the po files
    within sublevel3.

    That's the files, where translators (or package maintainers as you :-) )
    can insert changes.
    Those changes are then injected into the packages during the following night.

    In other words: the only "user" who is allowed to change the po files in
    your package, is "the bot" (named l10n-sync, running on dillon)!



    BTW: every po file in your package has a big fat warning at the top of
    the file saying


    # THIS FILE IS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY FROM THE D-I PO MASTER FILES
    # The master files can be found under packages/po/
    #
    # DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE DIRECTLY: SUCH CHANGES WILL BE LOST


    So, the bot is correct :-p


    Regards
    Holger


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