Help with strange error in smolt.master-smoon.messages.po

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:59:28PM -0300, Domingo Becker wrote:
> 2009/8/21 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
> >> Does anybody understands what's going on?
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to dig into it, but maybe it's because the
> > original string should be:
> >
> > "%s hosts detected ${type}"
> >
> > The "%s" indicates a string format.  With no character after the "%"
> > the gettext library is confused.
> >
> 
> Seems to be a bug in the source code.
> In python 2.6, the {} markup was introduced. The % was used previously.
> It seems somebody forgotten to delete the % when updating the source code.
> 
> Anyway, the package smolt-server-1.2-4.2.fc11.noarch.rpm has the string
> /usr/share/smolt/smoon/hardware/templates/deviceclass.html:        <th
> valign="top" width="25%">${_("% hosts detected ")} ${type}</th>
> 
> which means the .pot file is outdated, the string  "%s hosts detected
> ${type}" will never be used.
> 
> The actual string would also confuse gettext library.

Thanks for this info Domingo -- I am not yet up on all the 2.6 changes
so I'm happy someone else around here knows what he's talking
about. :-)

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