Re: Vietnamese .po file causes coreutils build failure [Re: bootstrap: TP urls changed

[Benno Schulenberg]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> You can argue that the translation project should not publish
> such a .po file, and I agree that "upstream" (in the TP
> .po-checking code) is the right place to fix this, but can you
> get them to fix it quickly

I've run the following on all files in the latest/ directory that 
had the same problem, among them coreutils/ja.po:

    sed -i '/msgstr\[1\]/d' the.po

And checked that they now pass 'msgfmt -c -o /dev/null the.po'.

(There's still one coreutils po file for which 'msgfmt -c' reports a 
fatal error, but I can't see anything wrong with the indicated 
messages.  It might be a bug in 'msgfmt'.

coreutils/be.po:2298: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 
'msgstr[0]' does not match
coreutils/be.po:2306: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 
'msgstr[0]' does not match
msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors)

> Request for the TP coordinator:
> ===============================
>
>     Would you please consider adding a msgfmt check like the one
> above, to prevent publication of any new .po file with that
> error?

I've just now tried uploading a grep-2.5.1a.nl.po file containing 
the "...but some messages have 2 plural forms" error -- it gets 
rejected.  So the check is apparently already in place.

Benno