French translation of Bison runs afoul of gettext 0.15

[Paul Eggert]

I'm having trouble building CVS Bison using GNU gettext 0.15, which
was released recently.  One issue is that gettext 0.15 rejects
the French translation of Bison:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/teams/PO/fr/bison-runtime-2.3.fr.po

with a fatal diagnostic, as follows:

   rm -f fr.gmo && msgfmt -c --statistics -o fr.gmo fr.po
   fr.po:79: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[1]' does 
not match
   msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

Here's the offending entry:

   #: src/conflicts.c:520
   #, c-format
   msgid "expected %d reduce/reduce conflict"
   msgid_plural "expected %d reduce/reduce conflicts"
   msgstr[0] "attendait 0 conflit par réduction/réduction"
   msgstr[1] "attendait 0 conflits par réduction/réduction"

Could you please fix this, and send email to address@hidden when
it's fixed?  I'm afraid we'll have to temporarily disable the use of
the French translation in the meantime, so that CVS builds work.

I'm CC'ing this to bug-gnu-gettext, because it seems to me that the
translations are not strictly an error from a printf point of view
(ignoring any issue of the correctness of the French), since printf
allows formats that do not consume all the arguments.  For example,
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fprintf.html>
says "If the format is exhausted while arguments remain, the excess
arguments shall be evaluated but are otherwise ignored."; this is
longstanding practice.  So it may make sense to warn about this
particular usage, but a fatal error is a bit strong.