[publican-list] odd publican package error

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Ruediger Landmann wrote:
>  On 08/06/2010 01:30 AM, Douglas Silas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Trying to package the latest RHEL5 DG (after bumping the pubsnumber) 
>> on brew with this command:
>>
>> publican package --brew --lang=es-ES
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>
>> The relevant error message there seems to be:
>>
>> Invalid format for release. Value (ARRAY(0xd12e2f0)) does not 
>> conform to constraint ([^0-9.]) at /usr/bin/publican line 514
> 
> I'm note sure whether it's the cause of the error you're seeing, but 
> note that the pubsnumber only governs the release number for packages in 
> the language in which the XML is authored (in this case, en-US). The 
> release number for packages in translated packages is governed by the 
> "Project-Id-Version" parameter in the Book_Info.po file for that 
> language. For example, if this is release 42 of the Spanish translation 
> of the book, set:
> 
> "Project-Id-Version: 42\n"
> 
> in the es-ES/Book_Info.po file.
> 
> I wonder whether you're seeing that error because you have something 
> other than numerals or a dot in the "Project-Id-Version" parameter for 
> the Spanish version of the DG?

Indeed, the Book_Info.po files in the 5.5 SVN repo have either:

"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
or
"Project-Id-Version: Deployment_Guide\n"

> A few weeks ago, I realized this information was missing from the 
> Publican User Guide; it's in there for the next release (2.2, out soon).

The translators have known about this for ages.

I'll see if I can re-jig the code so this gets picked up earlier in the 
process, like package creation instead of building.

I opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621721

Cheers, Jeff.

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