On Mon, Feb 25 2019, Jean-Noël AVILA wrote: > On Monday, 25 February 2019 21:19:53 CET Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> On a NetBSD test box I have with msgfmt 0.14.4 v2.21.0 fails to compile. >> >> I didn't spot this in rc2 because b3225a4183 ("l10n: fr.po v2.21.0 rnd >> 2", 2019-02-13) along with the rest of i18n updates gets pulled in after >> all the RCs. >> >> I.e. this is because of the comments being parsed (fuzzy comments). >> >> The 0.14.4 gettext release was back in 2005, so presumably this is due >> to some GPLv3 allergy of NetBSD's. The OS version itself is 7.1, >> released a couple of years ago. >> > > I kept the commented entries as a translation memory, even when they are > fuzzy. > > Would unfuzzying these entries resolve the issue? Yeah it seems so. I think specifically it's complaining that even for comments there needs to be a msgid/msgstr pair, whereas in those fuzzy comments there's 2/1 instead of 1/1.