The attached patch is meant to use the "--previous" version of po4a (implemented in po4a 0.31) when (re)generating PO files for manpages.
That would allow translators to more easily figure out what changed in a strings when it has been fuzzied by a change in the original string. We briefly discussed this with Guillem today. --
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 11a9831..762a4e2 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ all-local-yes: man.stamp
# FIXME: Use a stamp file until po4a supports them internally.
man.stamp:
- po4a --no-backups --variable srcdir=$(srcdir) \
+ po4a --previous --no-backups --variable srcdir=$(srcdir) \
$(srcdir)/po/po4a.cfg
touch $@
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ clean-local: clean-loc...@use_nls@
clean-local-no:
clean-local-yes:
- po4a --rm-backups --rm-translations --variable srcdir=$(srcdir) \
+ po4a --previous --rm-backups --rm-translations --variable
srcdir=$(srcdir) \
$(srcdir)/po/po4a.cfg
rm -f man.stamp
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