Package: po4a
Version: 0.47-2
Severity: normal
Hi,
po4a (or actually po4a-translate I guess) does not check if msgid and msgstr
either both end, or both do not end with a new line character.
This might lead to an incorrectly translated documentation. Please see the
attached example of a very simple testman.1 that is displayed as:
testman(1) General Commands Manual testman(1)
1.
Item 1
2.
Item 2
testman(1)
Running po4a on the attached po4a.cfg file generates testman.en.1 that
man displays as following:
testtman(1) General Commands Manual testman(1)
1.
Item 1.IP 2.
Item 2
testman(1)
When the '-v' option is used, po4a shows errors from msgmft:
testman.en.po:35: 'msgid' and 'msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
testman.en.po:47: 'msgid' and 'msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
but still generates the translated document.
It would be nice if po4a (with or without the '-v' option) could fail in
such a case to make the tranaslator or maintainer aware of the issue.
Rgards,
robert
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Versions of packages po4a depends on:
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2
ii libsgmls-perl 1.03ii-36
ii opensp 1.5.2-13
ii perl 5.24.1-1
ii perl-modules-5.24 [perl-modules] 5.24.1-1
Versions of packages po4a recommends:
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.37-1
ii libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7.1
ii libunicode-linebreak-perl 0.0.20160702-1+b1
po4a suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
.TH testman 1
.IP 1.
Item 1
.IP 2.
Item 2
[po4a_langs] en
[po4a_paths] testman.pot $lang:testman.$lang.po
[type:man] testman.1 $lang:testman.$lang.1
# English translations for PACKAGE package
# Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# Automatically generated, 2017.
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2017-02-17 23:56+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2017-02-17 23:30+0100\n"
"Last-Translator: Automatically generated\n"
"Language-Team: none\n"
"Language: en\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ASCII\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
#. type: TH
#: testman.1:1
#, no-wrap
msgid "testman"
msgstr "testman"
#. type: IP
#: testman.1:2
#, no-wrap
msgid "1."
msgstr "1."
#. type: Plain text
#: testman.1:4
#, no-wrap
msgid " Item 1\n"
msgstr " Item 1"
#. type: IP
#: testman.1:4
#, no-wrap
msgid "2."
msgstr "2."
#. type: Plain text
#: testman.1:5
#, no-wrap
msgid " Item 2\n"
msgstr " Item 2"
