On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:21:39AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Building "make distcheck", I saw this go by: > > /usr/bin/xgettext: warning: The option --msgid-bugs-address was not specified. > If you are using a `Makevars' file, please specify > the MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS variable there; otherwise please > specify an --msgid-bugs-address command line option. > > Here's the part of Makevars where that's defined: > > # This is the email address or URL to which the translators shall report > # bugs in the untranslated strings: > # - Strings which are not entire sentences, see the maintainer guidelines > # in the GNU gettext documentation, section 'Preparing Strings'. > # - Strings which use unclear terms or require additional context to be > # understood. > # - Strings which make invalid assumptions about notation of date, time or > # money. > # - Pluralisation problems. > # - Incorrect English spelling. > # - Incorrect formatting. > # It can be your email address, or a mailing list address where translators > # can write to without being subscribed, or the URL of a web page through > # which the translators can contact you. > MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ > > I figure it's better to point people at the Fedora Translation pages > than at libvirt's mailing list. > > I had to propagate this into libvirt.pot as well to avoid > a "make distcheck" failure when update-po would try to move > the just-changed libvirt.po onto a read-only libvirt.pot file > because of the differing Report-Msgid-Bugs-To line. ACK, seems sensible since all our translations come via fedora currently. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list