Request for package inclusion: gettext lint tools

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:06 +0000, Pedro Morais wrote:
> Em Terça, 15 de Março de 2005 00:09, David Malcolm escreveu:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 10:54 +0000, Pedro Morais wrote:
> > > (...) 
> > > I think the current spec file should be ok, can someone review it?
> > > I'd like to add the package to extras.
> > > SRPM: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122521
> >
> > I briefly looked at this, and it seems sane to me.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > I tried running the tool on evolution's translations, and got a scarily
> > big report - 5894 problems found!  is this typical? (this was the first
> > random CVS checkout I had available so may not be representative)
> 
> I'lll assume you're talking about POFileChecker; it might be.
> You should probably run it against one translation at a time.
> 
> Using the fedora i18n repository as sample data:
> portuguese - pt - 0 errors
> spanish - es.po - 594 errors
> french - fr - 599 errors
> german - de - 272 erros
> italian - it - 314 erros
> 
> Most of the seem real errors, not false positives; and in there are always to 
> allow a certain number of errors or class of error, see the man page for 
> that.
Are you filing these as bugs somewhere BTW?

> 
> You can also catch a lot of errors with the POFileConsistency tool; from my 
> experience, at least 50% of all inconsistencies are caused by "bad" 
> translations.

What do we need to do now?