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bug#26247: Gettext introduces timestamps in .mo files
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#26247: Gettext introduces timestamps in .mo files |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:09:30 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Miguel,
Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
>>
>>> So it's not gettext itself, but our build system that generates the
>>> en@quote and en@boldquote files. Do we really need them? If so, we
>>> should find a way to generate them reproducibly.
>>
>> They’re generated automatically by the gettext Makefilery that we use,
>> so I don’t think there’s much we can do?
>
> The issue isn't on those files but on POT generation. Currently
> xgettext doesn't honor SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to fill POT-Creation-Date,
> which is used to fill PO-Revision-Date for auto-generated po files.
> These files are included into tarballs generated by make dist, therefore
> its date is already fixed, but they aren't present on our git tree---for
> obvious reasons.
OK.
> This bug has already been reported upstream[1] and probably I'll push it
> as soon as I have more test cases prepared and receive a brief review,
> but I can prepare a patch for previous versions if it's needed too.
[...]
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59658
Thanks for getting to the bottom of this and for preparing a patch
upstream!
In ‘core-updates’, we could either wait for the next Gettext release or
apply your patch in the meantime.
Ludo’.