Re: the latest convert-ly fiasco

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:44:46PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I have just ran update-with-convert-ly.  I saw a flag change from
>> > 2.15.10.  I have pushed that.
>> 
>> There is a bunch of duplicate Flag overrides/reverts now.
>
> Really?  huh.  I glanced at the patch and it looked decent... I
> mean, it sets the Stem, then it sets the Flag.  I thought that was
> the whole point.

Quite often it sets the Stem, then it sets the Flag, then it sets the
Flag again.

>> I suppose Mike and/or translators will have to clean those up
>> manually.
>
> Yep.

Probably less work than "doing it right" would have been, with the same
result.

>> You vetoed using dev/staging for preparation of a mergeable sequence of
>> independent patches with corresponding automatic convert-ly updates.
>
> I am entirely in favor of using some other branch for that,
> though.  I mean, you can call it whatever you want, as long as
> it's not release/unstable or dev/staging or dev/somebody's_name.

There goes dev/dak.

-- 
David Kastrup