## Description of problem: There are some files missing from POTFILES.{in,skip} that cause intltool (and our translation statistics website) to choke. We need to make sure `intltool -r` never complains, otherwise translators can't work. $ intltool-update -r /usr/bin/xgettext: error while opening "./../src/version.py" for reading: No such file or directory ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file. Please consult error message above if there is any. For more information, see the following FAQ: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tools/Website#missing-files-no-pot
hmm, version.py as well as some *.desktop files are only created after: $ configure $ make
Aha, makes sense. But the tools (intltool, statistics interface) and translators don't know about that, so they'll be faced with a problem here. Maybe it can be fixed with other intltool based tools like `intltool-prepare` etc? Any idea on how other projects handle this? If it can't be fixed on the toolchain layer, maybe we could just have those files added in the VCS and overwritten when configure/make is called.
should be fixed