Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-9 Severity: normal Hello! Thanks for maintaining gettext in Debian!
I noticed that xgettext does not properly replace all the relevant placeholders in the output .pot file, when told to do so through command-line options. I'll try to explain the issues with a minimal test case. Let's consider the example in the official Python library reference [1]. This should be minimal enough, I think. [1] http://docs.python.org/library/gettext.html#module-gettext Here's the example code: $ cat myapplication.py import gettext gettext.bindtextdomain('myapplication', '/path/to/my/language/directory') gettext.textdomain('myapplication') _ = gettext.gettext # ... print _('This is a translatable string.') Let's generate the corresponding .pot file: $ xgettext --language=python myapplication.py -o myapplication.pot $ cat myapplication.pot # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2012-07-23 22:49+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <l...@li.org>\n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #: myapplication.py:6 msgid "This is a translatable string." msgstr "" This seems to be OK, but some placeholders should be replaced by actual values. It is my understanding that (before the .pot file is made available to prospective translators who wish to start a localization in a new language) the second line should be replaced by appropriate copyright notices, and that PACKAGE and VERSION should be replaced by the actual package name and version number. Let's try with the following command-line options: $ xgettext --copyright-holder="Python Software Foundation" \ --package-name=myapplication --package-version=0.1 \ --language=python myapplication.py -o myapplication2.pot $ cat myapplication2.pot # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR Python Software Foundation # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: myapplication 0.1\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2012-07-23 22:49+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <l...@li.org>\n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #: myapplication.py:6 msgid "This is a translatable string." msgstr "" $ diff myapplication.pot myapplication2.pot 2c2 < # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER --- > # Copyright (C) YEAR Python Software Foundation 9c9 < "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" --- > "Project-Id-Version: myapplication 0.1\n" That's better, but there are a few issues left: (A) first of all, the YEAR placeholder in the second line is not replaced, and I failed to find an option to do so (B) secondly, I cannot find a way to include multi-line copyright notices, as in [2]: # Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Python Software Foundation. # Copyright (C) 2000 BeOpen.com. # Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives. # Copyright (C) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. [2] http://docs.python.org/copyright.html (C) finally, the PACKAGE placeholder is correctly replaced in the Project-Id-Version field, but left untouched in the third line of myapplication2.pot Please fix these issues and/or forward this bug report upstream, as appropriate. Thanks for your time! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gettext depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.4.3 ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-9 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libasprintf0c2 0.18.1.1-9 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libcroco3 0.6.5-1 ii libgettextpo0 0.18.1.1-9 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libgomp1 4.7.1-2 ii libncurses5 5.9-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libunistring0 0.9.3-5 ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-4 Versions of packages gettext recommends: ii autopoint 0.18.1.1-9 ii curl 7.26.0-1 ii wget 1.13.4-3 Versions of packages gettext suggests: pn gettext-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
