Bug#114019: gettextize will not preserve changes to po/Makefile.in.in, and has no way to be told of extra keywords for xgettext (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:15:02 -0300
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Subject: Bug#114019: gettextize will not preserve changes to
    po/Makefile.in.in, and has no way to be told of extra keywords for xgettext

Package: gettext
Version: 0.10.40-1
Severity: important

Some programs need to change the invocation of gettext() from _() to
something (e.g. tue to the DES libraries of kerberos using _() in some
incarnations).

gettextize will lose that information, which is in po/Makefile.in.in. It
should have an option switch to inform it of a new set of keywords to use
instead of the default _() and N_() in po/Makefile.in.in's invocation of
xgettext.

Since there is no workaround against this bug and it causes silent breakage
that is very unlikely to be noticed before it causes damage and headaches,
I tagged it 'important'.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux godzillah.khazad-dum.debian.net 2.2.19 #1 Thu Mar 29 19:31:38 BRT 
2001 i586
Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR

Versions of packages gettext depends on:
ii  gettext-base                  0.10.40-1  GNU Internationalization utilities
hi  libc6                         2.2.4-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh