Package: gettext Version: 0.16.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I noticed that xgettext does not generate a POT file if it does not find translatable messages. This is wrong, it should at least create a POT file with a header. I asked it to create this file but xgettext does not what I say! That's why I looked long time in a Makefile to find an error of xgettext invocation. I first assumed it cannot write into files containing hyphens and changed the output file name. No success! After this I ran it manually and assumed it just doesn't display all errors and terminates. That was also not true. The problem was that a patch was not yet applied which adds necessary gettext calls to the source. If I had seen a nearly empty POT file there would be no need for me to guess what could be wrong! The current behaviour is also not very script friendly (in case the source tree is unknown and may contain no translatable data), since one has to write xgettext -o file.POT; if ! test -e file.POT; then ...; fi Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
