Re: msgfmt error

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

On 5/19/09, Pierre Wieser <pierre wieser fr> wrote:
> > > 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/
>
> OK, I understand that I can safely forget all po/ directory which is fine
>  for me. And I'll add the url to my bookmarks ;-)
>  Thanks for the explanation.
>  Cordialement,

Not all of the po/ directory -- we appreciate if you keep
po/POTFILES.in and po/POTFILES.skip updated. IIRC intltool has a
--maintain flag to help with this.


Christian