Re: Splitting gnome-utils for 3.4

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

Den 06-10-2011 20:44, Cosimo Cecchi skrev:
> On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 12:59 +0200, Stef Walter wrote:
>
> > You probably already figured this out, but here's the commands that
> > seemed to work for me:
> >
> > $ cd po/
> > $ for po in *.po; do intltool-update ${po%.po}; done
> > $ sed -i.bak '/#~/d' *.po
> > $ for po in *.po; do intltool-update ${po%.po}; done
>
> Hi Stef,
>
> thanks for the tip, that worked perfectly!
>
> Cosimo

Hey guys, sorry about the late reply but I've been on vacation.

Are you guys sure? The command above assumes that all lines in the 
obsolete part of the file starts with #~ but that is not always the 
case. Translator-written comments for the strings that were obsoleted 
are kept and they don't have the #~ prefix, (which is a dam... mess for 
writing parsers for the format btw[1]). I'm not sure if it is a problem, 
but that means that the sed command above potentially leaves hanging 
comments, but maybe the second intltool-update removes those.

Alternatively, msgattrib appearently knows about this oddity (caveat), 
so the sed command might be replaced with a command like this:
for po in *.po; do cat $po|msgattrib --no-obsolete -o $po;done

Regards Kenneth


[1] See comment 3 in this bugreport: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyg3t/+bug/848950