Re: gnulib localizations

2024-12-07 Thread Gavin Smith
> You are right. And still, the problem with the nonexistent/empty POT file > is only the smallest problem in the current state of gnulib localizations. > > The current state is a failure. Documentation was added on 2008-01-03 [1][2], > but nevertheless > > * Among the > 100 packages that use g

Update COPYING file

2024-12-07 Thread Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list
The COPYING file still reflects the state of affairs before 2021-06-04. Cf. . This patch fixes it. 2024-12-07 Bruno Haible Update COPYING file. * COPYING: Remove statements that are not true any more since

Re: gnulib localizations

2024-12-07 Thread Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list
[Dropping bug-texinfo and bug-gettext from CC] Gavin Smith wrote: > > In this case, the package should ship no *.po files in this directory > > at all — since there is nothing to translate. > > This is possible but it is more work to remove the gettext infrastructure > for this Gnulib import. It

Re: gnulib-tool --po-base - allow empty message catalog

2024-12-07 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 08:59:56AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > > This is likely to happen for other project too if they do not use > > many Gnulib modules or remove modules. > > > > The effect of this means that the package will be distributed with the > > Gnulib translation catalogs with extra t

Re: gnulib-tool --po-base - allow empty message catalog

2024-12-07 Thread Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list
[CCing bug-gettext] Hi Gavin, Gavin Smith wrote in : > ... I found that the file was supposed to be updated by > "make texinfo_tp-gnulib.pot-update". This ran xgettext which is one > of the gettext programs to handle message f