Re: POTFILES errors on status pages

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mercredi 04 juillet 2007 à 15:47 +0200, Claude Paroz a écrit :
> 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 Danilo, you know that the outdated version of intltool on DL server is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 :-)

Seems GUADEC is a good period for updates :)  Excessive warnings about
POTFILES have now disappeared.
Thanks!

Claude