Re: git status update?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 21:44 +0100, Claude Paroz wrote:
> > The GNOME translation team is using other gettext
> > features that prevent the use of -c (as of 0.14.6) in any case?
> 
> The msgctxt feature probably. Anyway, I'm not in favour of checking po
> files with such an old gettext version.
> Maybe we can simply drop this hook for now. Note that this is not a
> problem for translators, maybe more for maintainers. Don't forget the
> msgfmt check is also done on l10n.gnome.org.

As a former maintainer, I'm not really willing to drop the check
immediately. People committing broken .po files is a pain.

But if msgfmt without -c starts causing problems for translator then
please let us know; it was working on svn.gnome.org, but that is running
a newer gettext 0.17.

- Owen