Re: msgfmt error

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le dimanche 17 mai 2009 à 00:28 +0200, Pierre Wieser a écrit :
> Hi all
> 
> As the new maintainer of nautilus-actions project, I've fixed some typos in translatable strings which were marked in Bugzilla.
> 
> I'm not sure if I was right to do this, but I have done "make -C po update-po" in order to update po files.

Hi Pierre,

If your module is completely intltool compliant (as it seems to be in
your case), you shouldn't bother about updating po files at all. This
task is taken care of by our tool, damned-lies, which updates the po
files for translators to pick [1] (or translators can do this themselves
by running 'intltool-update <lang>' in the po directory).

Cordialement,

Claude

[1] http://l10n.gnome.org/module/nautilus-actions/

> All seemed fine, but when I wanted to push to gnome git, the pre-hooks refuses with a message error standing that dz.po file would be broken :
> 
> $ msgfmt -c dz.po
> dz.po:1018: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[1]' does not match
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 
> I've searched for this error, but Google has not been my friend today ;-(
> 
> At last, I've commented the offending lines in the dz.po file (this is bad, yes !).
> 
> Could someone explain me what is the problem please ? I surely made a mistake somewhere ?
> 
> By the way, giving me a link to a maintainer how-to against i18n would be also a great thing, as I didn't find anything under MaintainersCorner..
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Pierre
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