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Re: Please verify translations before committing



On 2008-04-29 07:15 +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> I was recommended somewhere to change from using
>
>   msgfmt -vvv -o /dev/null sv.po
>
> to
>
>   msgfmt --statistics sv.po
>
> but it seems that the latter does not catch the mistake I made, so I'm
> back to using the first form to make sure I will not commit broken
> files again.

You should use the -c switch, that is the one that reports mistakes:

  msgfmt -c -o /dev/null sv.po

> As to the manual page translation that I have had some problems with
> before (the matching of "<"s and ">"s), I've taken care to
> double-check all my changes now. I still am unable to build manual
> pages on Etch, and I haven't got a working Sid setup at the moment, so
> I can't test it as extensively as I would like to.

Maybe you or someone else can backport po4a to Etch?  Judging by the
build dependencies, a simple rebuild might be sufficient.

Regards,
        Sven


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