Bug#913396: www.debian.org: adding code for Spanish in webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml

Rafa <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:22:37 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID	<20181110132237.stbecqa3atr23r6s__46506.9619393491$1541857487$gmane$org@rptv.info>

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainers,

Script webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml includes
code for several languages (but not for Spanish) when dealing with the
"translator" and "editor" tags. In case the text for any of those tags
includes at least a comma, an appropiate term, which depends on the
language, is substituted for the last comma.

The lack of a specific treatment for Spanish implies that the Spanish
translations get the default treatment, which means that the term
"and" is subsituted for the last comma.

We would like the Spanish case to be incorporated into the script. We
have discussed the issue briefly in the debian-l10n-spanish mailing
list, and we see two possible approaches to this:

1. Substitute the term "y" or "e" (whichever is correct in each case)
for the last comma.
2. Do not perform any substitution.

While the first approach would be the preferred one, it would probably
be quite hard to implement, as the Spanish rules that define whether the
term to use is "y" or "e" are, by no means, simple.

So, if the first approach were not practical, the second one (which is,
of course, much easier to implement) would be good enough. Moreover, in
this case the translator would have the chance to write in the wml page
the correct term ("y" or "e"), which is, I think, a most natural action
for a translator to perform.

In case the second approach is the one implemented, I provide a patch
that could, probably, do the job.

Regards,

Rafa.

0001-Leave-translator-and-editor-unmodified-when-translat.patch (text/x-diff, 1.2 KB)

From 53f1114811355a5a9bfaf86ca10a537113405d70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafa <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:03:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Leave 'translator' and 'editor' unmodified when translating
 to Spanish

---
 english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml b/english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml
index 8297ae8d4b2..1f1f05416b8 100644
--- a/english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml
+++ b/english/template/debian/projectnews/footer.wml
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@
     } elsif ($CUR_ISO_LANG eq 'it') {
       $translator =~ s/,([^,]+)$/ e $1/;
       $translator =~ s/,/, /g;
+    } elsif ($CUR_ISO_LANG eq 'es') {
+     $translator =~ s/,/, /g;
     } else {
      # Fallback to the english style if there's no translation yet
      $translator =~ s/,([^,]+)$/ and $1/;
@@ -181,6 +183,8 @@
    } elsif ($CUR_ISO_LANG eq 'it') {
      $editor =~ s/,([^,]+)$/ e $1/;
      $editor =~ s/,/, /g;
+   } elsif ($CUR_ISO_LANG eq 'es') {
+     $editor =~ s/,/, /g;
    } else {
      # Fallback to the english style if there's no translation yet
      $editor =~ s/,([^,]+)$/ and $1/;
-- 
2.11.0

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