Bug 321091 - POT file needs updating; different from intltool created one
Summary: POT file needs updating; different from intltool created one
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pirut
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-05 23:30 UTC by Dimitris Glezos
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-09 01:21:45 UTC
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Description Dimitris Glezos 2007-10-05 23:30:41 UTC
## Description of problem:

Static POT file is different from the dynamic one (intltool):

$ msgfmt --statistics *pot
0 translated messages, 178 untranslated messages.

$ intltool-update --pot
[glezos@shuttle po]$ msgfmt --statistics *pot
0 translated messages, 177 untranslated messages.

This might cause confusion to translators, since some of them will try to
`msgmerge` with the POT file instead of running `intltool-update <lang>`.

I guess best practice is either to completely remove the POT file (a new
translator will either get the msgmerged PO from translate.fpo or need the whole
source code to produce the PO/POT) or have the POT up2date by always using
`intltool-update --pot` to update the POT file.

Note: the stats page create the POT on the fly.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-10-09 01:21:45 UTC
Hrmmm -- for some reason, the pot file wasn't being updated on 'make dist' as 
it should be.  Even a 'make -C po pirut.pot' was saying nothing to be done. 
Forced it to update and then tried touching files and the right thing seems to
happen, so should hopefully go away.


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