Package: gettext
Version: 0.17-2
Severity: wishlist

msgfmt does support --endianness {big|little} from the source in
gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ file messages.mo 
messages.mo: GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 14
messages
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ msgfmt --endianness big cs.po 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ file messages.mo 
messages.mo: GNU message catalog (big endian), revision 0, 14 messages
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:po$ 

Please document this in the manpage and ask upstream if it can also be
output in the --help output.

(endianness is important when crossbuilding packages containing PO
files.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gettext depends on:
ii  gettext-base              0.17-2         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                     2.7-8          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgomp1                  4.3-20080219-1 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library

Versions of packages gettext recommends:
ii  lynx                          2.8.6-2    Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  wget                          1.10.2-3   retrieves files from the web

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