KDE Applications: ease fetching catalogs for a tag, adding file "subdirs" again

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 29 d’agost de 2016, a les 2:05:21 CEST, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau 
va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> how are the translation catalogs tagged on releases of KDE Applications?
> 
> I would like to get back the file "subdirs" with the tagged catalogs, the
> file which list the names of all locales for which there are catalogs
> present. So one can do a custom packaging based on a tag directly from the
> repositories again (was possibly in KDE4 times, so expectations are high :)
> )
> 
> I hope this is done by a script? Happy to provide a patch.
> 
> 
> Background:
> on releases of KDE Applications the catalogs are currently tagged in svn,
> see e.g.
> 	https://websvn.kde.org/tags/Applications/16.08.0/kde-l10n/5/
> which has the snapshot of all the catalogs as used with the KA 16.08.0
> release.
> 
> Which is following what used to be done in the "KDE" times, e.g.
> 	https://websvn.kde.org/tags/KDE/4.12.0/kde-l10n/
> 
> But other then before those tags/Applications/ folders no longer contain
> that file "subdirs". That one is only present in the trunk and branches
> folders.
> 
> And this very file is used by packaging scripts, to simplify fetching of the
> catalogs (e.g. releaseme or create_tarball_kf5.rb).
> 
> Now, those two scripts listed seem to have no problem. That is, because they
> only work against trunk/ and branches/ folders (from what I saw). Which is
> surely fine on release day, when the state of the catalogs should be close
> to the state of the code.
> 
> But I hit this problem while porting a custom build script from its KDE4
> version to the KDE Application/KF5 worlds. That script does rely on the tags
> for the catalogs. As it would support use-cases like a custom branch based
> on a certain tag, with special support for a some custom platform only
> added weeks after the official release.
> 
> Those custom builds for custom platforms would be ideally made directly from
> the repositories also when it comes to translation catalogs, because: *
> could happen weeks after release time, so catalogs in the branch run the
> risk of no longer being in sync with the code of the tag (e.g. due to a bug
> fix changing message ids)
> * with KDE Applications currently all translations are in one separate
> tarball for all of KDE Applications, so would be some overhead to download
> everything and to do the work to extract just the catalogs one needs
> 
> Especially as this worked fine in KDE4 times, and just needs that "subdirs"
> file which should be easy to generate and which is not expensive to have in
> svn as well.
> 
> Not having the "subdirs" file might spoil the purpose of having those
> catalog tags in svn at all. What other use of the tags is there? (Though in
> general tagging the state which ends up in a release is nice to have, just
> seems not general standard with translations for all KDE projects?)
> IMVHO if we have those tags, we should also put the "subdirs" file there, to
> help use-cases as those custom-tag-based-from-repo builds.
> 
> So, where do I need to hack on to provide a patch? :)

I think that file is useless but if it's going to make you're life so much 
better https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=sysadmin%2Frelease-tools.git

the tag_all.sh file is what you want a patch against.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich