Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 321091
POT file needs updating; different from intltool created one
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:17 EST
## 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.
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.