On Sun, 22 May 2022 at 22:32, Roland Illig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sorry, I didn't see an answer to my question: where are there http URLs in the current messages? > I know that strictly speaking, the .pot file is a generated file, but > still, generating it requires an external tool (xgettext) that uses > heuristics, so I would rather keep a copy in the repository, if only to > be able to easily see when and why messages change. > We don't currently (since 2013). Are you able to reconstruct a build of GNU hello > from 1995? The git history only goes back to 2004. Releases of course contain the pofiles. > Where do you record which version of xgettext was used to build the > releases of GNU hello? > We don't as far as I can see. You could suggest to the xgettext maintainers that it write its version into its output files. In the light of reproducible builds, GNU hello does not set > a good example, in my opinion. > Git builds may not be reproducible, but most users are concerned with releases, not arbitrary git commits. -- https://rrt.sc3d.org
