[Koha-bugs] [Bug 29538] UNIMARC no longer available as marc flavour when installing in Italian

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29538

--- Comment #10 from John Fawcett <john at voipsupport.it> ---
Manos. 
no, there was no discussion about removing UNIMARC. The discussion was about a
more maintainable way of providing UNIMARC translations that keep in sync with
the original template. With the then existing mechanism UNIMARC was no longer
installing anyway for Italian and I submitted some fixes to realign the
translated version with the baseline which meant that it was now installable
again. (From this I gather that not many new installations were being done in
Italian for UNIMARC, but not sure whether people didn't need it or they needed
it but it wasn't working).

The basic problem with the then existing approach is translations were in the
code. Jonathan proposed an alternative approach which would mean all
translations would be on pootle and there was only one version of the template
in the code (so nothing in the code to get out of sync as had happened). I
believe that is a good approach and gave my feedback on it.

I don't know who was involved in the decision but I do know I was not the only
person to be asked for feedback.

Your question is related to the Italian version, but I believe the modification
applies to all translated versions except English and French.

I think the issue is not about the discussion that was done or with how many
people it was done, but that not all the code changes needed were committed
together. As Jonathan has said, there is however a workaround, since upgrades
from previouos versions installed with UNIMARC are supported.

John

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