Re: [bug-inetutils] syntax-checks

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    Any objections to dropping all HAVE_CONFIG_H uses in InetUtils?
>
> That is fine.

I'll take a stab at it.

>    Marking strings has to be done manually and carefully to make sure
>    we translate useful strings.  It would quite an effort to resolve
>    this in one go, however we can start on this and add strings as we
>    move along.
>
>    Any objections to creating a gettext domain for InetUtils and start
>    marking strings for translation?
>
> The major problem is that many of the strings are hard to translate (I
> think I once removed a bunch of _() calls to clean things up).  I
> would prefer, for now, to just add this check to the list of
> syntax-checks to be ignored.  Atleast, until we release.

I'm fine with delaying this until after the release.  I agree the state
of the current strings are poor even for English, so part of the
translation markup will be to go through it -- that's what I referred to
above.

/Simon