Exclude hidden tasks from translation, since there is very little point in translating these and it causes much translator load, and bloats tasksel. For now, all tasks in Section l10n are excluded, which excludes the right set, currently. (With apologies to hard-working translators for not having done this sooner.)

debian/changelog

@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ tasksel (2.75) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Move myspell from base language to lang-desktop tasks, as it is used by
     gui programs. (hunspell left in base language tasks as it can be used at
     the console.)
+  * Exclude hidden tasks from translation, since there is very little point
+    in translating these and it causes much translator load, and bloats
+    tasksel. For now, all tasks in Section l10n are excluded, which excludes
+    the right set, currently. (With apologies to hard-working translators
+    for not having done this sooner.)
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 14 May 2008 17:10:27 -0400
 

tasks/po/Makefile

@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ all: $(POTFILE) $(MOS)
 	touch build_stamp
 
 $(POTFILE): ../../$(DOMAIN).desc
-	sed -e 's/^Description:/_&/' ../../$(DOMAIN).desc > $(DOMAIN).desc && PODEBCONF_HEADER=/dev/null debconf-updatepo --podir=. && mv templates.pot $(POTFILE)-update
+	sed -e 's/^Description:/_&/' ../../$(DOMAIN).desc | \
+		perl -ne 'BEGIN {$$/="\n\n"}; print unless /Section: l10n/' > $(DOMAIN).desc
+	PODEBCONF_HEADER=/dev/null debconf-updatepo --podir=.
+	mv templates.pot $(POTFILE)-update
 	if test -f $(POTFILE); then \
 	  if diff -I '^"POT-Creation-Date:' -I '^Report-Msgid-Bugs-To:' $(POTFILE) $(POTFILE)-update >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
 	      rm -f $(POTFILE)-update; \