Re: Bug#450511: gettext: Please have default Makefile.in.in do validity checks on translations (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote via Santiago Vila:
> > Bug #444888 in liferea was caused by a missing %d in a translated
> > string. This would have been caught earlier if po/Makefile would do
> > validity checks on the translations when building the package.
> > 
> > Could you please enable such support by default?
> 
> Such support already exists: When the package maintainer executes the
> command "make update-po", the PO files are checked with "msgfmt -c".
> This command is mentioned in the gettext manual, section "Creating a
> Distribution Tarball", and the automake goal "make dist" invokes
> "make update-po".

Thanks a lot. Closing report, then.