Re: POTFILES errors on status pages

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le jeudi 28 juin 2007 à 16:46 +0200, Danilo Šegan a écrit :
> Hi Clytie,
> 
> Glad to have you back in GNOME Translation waters,
> 
> Today at 16:00, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> 
> > Another status page query. ;)
> >
> > The warning icons on the l10n status pages about files missing or
> > incorrect in POTFILES puzzle me. There's nothing I, as a translator,
> > can do to fix that problem.
> 
> You usually can't do anything about them.
> 
> > So should those warnings be displayed on our l10n status pages at all?
> >
> > Is there a reason why they are shown to us?
> 
> I think they are worthwhile because they sometimes indicate that a PO
> file might not be fully updated (even during the string freeze), or
> that it was not even regenerated for a while (when the stats would be
> old).
> 
> > [1]
> > Do you want us to gang up on the developers and throw rotten tomatoes
> > at them until they fix the problem? :D
> 
> That's another of the points: you go to the module page, follow the
> 'file a bug' link, and file a bug :)

Danilo, you know that the outdated version of intltool on DL server is
causing non accurate errors (built time *.in referenced in
POTFILES.skip).

So that's a problem if translators report such non bugs.

It would be so cool to have the latest version of intltool on the
server :-)

Claude