Re: RFC: Move rpm-info back into locale dirs

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Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus:

> I believe (or, if you like, "see the light") that this file needs to
> return to the locale whence it came, to make translation easier for our
> most excellent cadre of volunteers.  If its contents appear in the
> PO/POT files, it's one less annoying FDP-specific step they have to
> remember or take.

As the person who put the rpm-info.xml file in the ${PRI_LANG}
directory, cough cough, I think this is a good idea ;-)  When we
agreed to move this up to the document's base directory, I didn't
disagree because the translatable elements in that file are each
given their own "lang=foo" attribute.  

Stupid me.

This arrangement makes it almost impossible to generate the
boilerplate texts in a locale-specific manner.  Not knowning much
about the ".desktop" files and such, you know.

Even a stupid man can see through a brick wall given enough time.
 
> This change will require a few fairly easy changes to Makefile.common
> that will break the build of any document that does not move its
> rpm-info.xml into the ${PRI_LANG} folder.  We also have to figure out a
> way to get the translated titles/translation elements into the POT
> folders, although I suspect this would be a very minor amount of work
> compared to the effort we will save our translators in the long run.

Yup, very minor.
 
> Comments welcome and appreciated.  Silence gives consent.  Absence makes
> the heart grow fonder.

You wanna take a stab at this or do you want me to?  I'd recommend
that we revisit the DTD and remove all the "lang=foo" attributes to
avoid downstream confusion.

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