Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:19:45 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: > Francesco Poli writes: [...] > > Please support these cases as well, at least by adding a > > --same-copyright option (without arguments) that produces > > a .pot file with > > > > # Copyright (C) YEAR THE

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli writes: >> I don't think it is boring nor error prone -- it just means to >> concatenate two files. > > Well, not really just a file concatenation... More a job for sed or > awk, as I said. But this would be the case, if you automated the task. I

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:21:29 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: > Francesco Poli writes: > > > • I post-process the .pot template generated by xgettext and insert > > the correct copyright notices: this can be done by hand (boring and > > error prone!) or automatically, for

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:16:10 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: I would definitely prefer to see xgettext changed, rather than having to do sed or awk tricks to post-process its output. So, to me, (4) is the least preferred option. Sorry, I am not

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: • I post-process the .pot template generated by xgettext and insert the correct copyright notices: this can be done by hand (boring and error prone!) or automatically, for instance, with some sed or awk trick I don't think it is boring nor

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:58:31 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: I'd definitely vote for 3, but, wait!, even better, I would add a new option named --copyright-notices (or maybe there's a better name, I don't know...), where all the copyright notices

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: I would definitely prefer to see xgettext changed, rather than having to do sed or awk tricks to post-process its output. So, to me, (4) is the least preferred option. Sorry, I am not convinced. Again, I am reluctant to add a new option to

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: Besides that, the patch seems to only address point (B) of my original bug report (multiple copyright holders), but not point (A) or point (C) (YEAR and PACKAGE placeholders). Or am I misreading the patch? As (C) is trivial, I've pushed a fix:

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:05:17 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: Besides that, the patch seems to only address point (B) of my original bug report (multiple copyright holders), but not point (A) or point (C) (YEAR and PACKAGE placeholders). Or am I

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: I'd definitely vote for 3, but, wait!, even better, I would add a new option named --copyright-notices (or maybe there's a better name, I don't know...), where all the copyright notices may be specified with their own line breaks, as in: I'm

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:49:00PM +0900, Daiki Ueno wrote: What else was remaining to close this bug? In Debian we usually close a bug when there is a new package available in unstable fixing the bug. This is what I will do for the Debian package but of course you might have different rules for

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:06:11 +0200 Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:49:00PM +0900, Daiki Ueno wrote: What else was remaining to close this bug? In Debian we usually close a bug when there is a new package available in unstable fixing the bug. This is what I will do for the

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Daiki Ueno u...@gnu.org writes: By the way, after looking into the history and the documentation more closely, I realized that my argument on copyright notice was pointless. I'm sorry. I'm now in favor of adding support for multiple copyright holders, like the attached patch, which makes

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:10:25 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: [...] What I really fail to understand is: if some placeholders are replaced by xgettext --copyright-holder=Python Software Foundation \ --package-name=myapplication

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: I am frankly having a hard time in seeing why the placeholder PACKAGE should be replaced in one occurrence, but not in the other. And in figuring out why the placeholder THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER should be replaced, while the YEAR

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: dist-hook: echo # Copyright (C) ... $(distdir)/po/hello.pot This would place the copyright notice at the end of the .pot file, wouldn't it? This is not necessarily what one would want to do. I just gave you an example how it could be

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:03:51 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:48:20 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: I noticed that xgettext does not properly replace all the relevant placeholders in the output .pot file, when told to do so

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:48:20 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: 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 doubt if it is meaningful to

Bug#682580: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:48:20 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: 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 doubt if it is meaningful to have a real copyright notice in an auto-generated

Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER)

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