Re: [Vala] cannot locate ITS rules for org.gnome.Publisher.appdata.xml.in

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

> From: Sascha Manns <Sascha Manns mailbox org>
> Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2017, 11:02
> Subject: [Vala] cannot locate ITS rules for org.gnome.Publisher.appdata.xml.in

> After ./autogen.sh and make i'm getting:

> sascha@linux-ktr9:~/Projects/gnome-publisher1/data> make
>   GEN      org.gnome.Publisher.appdata.xml
> /usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for
> org.gnome.Publisher.appdata.xml.in


msgfmt is a gettext program and ITS appears to stand for Internationalization Tag Set.
> From the gettext manual "Marking translatable strings in an XML file is done through 

a separate "rule" file, making use of the Internationalization Tag Set standard" - see 

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Preparing-ITS-Rules.html

So I would guess your <_p></_p> tags in 

https://github.com/saigkill/gnome-publisher/blob/master/data/org.gnome.Publisher.appdata.xml.in
might need some metadata.

You might get a few more clues from here:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1565

Regards,

Al