On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 16:52:50 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 05:43:16PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 16:26:42 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:37:55AM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 15:37:34 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 01:08:09PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 17:14:32 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > > > > Even if fixed, it might be worth switching the .pot file anyway, but > > > > > > > this can't be done without us bulk updating the translations, and > > > > > > > bulk re-importing them, which will be challenging. We'll almost > > > > > > > certainly want to try this on a throw-away repo in weblate first, > > > > > > > not our main repo. > > > > > > > > > > > > I was able to come up with steps leading to the desired state: > > > > > > > > > > > > 0. lock weblate repository > > > > > > 1. update libvirt.pot from the most recent potfile job > > > > > > 2. push to libvirt.git > > > > > > 2. wait for translations update from Fedora Weblate and merge it > > > > > > 3. pull from libvirt.git > > > > > > 4. apply the first 50 patches from this seires (with required changes > > > > > > to make sure all translation strings are updated) > > > > > > 5. update all po files with the attached script > > > > > > 6. update libvirt.pot by running meson compile libvirt-pot > > > > > > 7. apply patch 51 of this series > > > > > > 8. push to libvirt.git > > > > > > 9. wait for translations update from Fedora Weblate and merge it > > > > > > 10. unlock weblate repository > > > > > > This looks ok, but I'm wondering if weblate will remember all > > > our obsolete msgids when we do step 8 ? IOW, will our po files > > > get the 10,000 current msgids, plus another 5,000 non-position > > > based msgids marked with '#~ msgid' ? > > > > No, apparently it doesn't do so. Looking at the last commit in > > https://gitlab.com/jirkade/libvirt/-/commits/format-strings which is an > > update from weblate after all the changes, there's not a single new > > "#~ msgid" line added. The overall statistics of the patch is > > > > 46 files changed, 28392 insertions(+), 19137 deletions(-) > > > > and it is caused by weblate (or rather msgmerge) wrapping lines as they > > got longer when format strings were updated using the script. > > Ok, I wonder where our existing '#~ msgids' lines are coming > from ! They seem to be added only when a msgid in .po does not exist in .pot anymore. But since we're pushing both .pot and .po updates at the same time, msgid strings match. Jirka