[libvirt] [PATCH] avoid xgettext warning aboug bug-reporting address
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jan 5 11:09:22 UTC 2009
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:21:39AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Building "make distcheck", I saw this go by:
>
> /usr/bin/xgettext: warning: The option --msgid-bugs-address was not specified.
> If you are using a `Makevars' file, please specify
> the MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS variable there; otherwise please
> specify an --msgid-bugs-address command line option.
>
> Here's the part of Makevars where that's defined:
>
> # This is the email address or URL to which the translators shall report
> # bugs in the untranslated strings:
> # - Strings which are not entire sentences, see the maintainer guidelines
> # in the GNU gettext documentation, section 'Preparing Strings'.
> # - Strings which use unclear terms or require additional context to be
> # understood.
> # - Strings which make invalid assumptions about notation of date, time or
> # money.
> # - Pluralisation problems.
> # - Incorrect English spelling.
> # - Incorrect formatting.
> # It can be your email address, or a mailing list address where translators
> # can write to without being subscribed, or the URL of a web page through
> # which the translators can contact you.
> MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
>
> I figure it's better to point people at the Fedora Translation pages
> than at libvirt's mailing list.
>
> I had to propagate this into libvirt.pot as well to avoid
> a "make distcheck" failure when update-po would try to move
> the just-changed libvirt.po onto a read-only libvirt.pot file
> because of the differing Report-Msgid-Bugs-To line.
ACK, seems sensible since all our translations come via fedora currently.
Daniel
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