intltool

latest gettext releases support new file formats

Bug #1325597 reported by Piotr Drąg on 2014-06-02

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
intltool	New	Undecided	Unassigned
intltool (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #855878
intltool (Fedora)	Confirmed	Undecided	redhat-bugs #1354066

Bug Description

Recent gettext releases [1] include built-in support for Glade 3, JavaScript, Lua, Vala, .desktop entries, and GSettings file formats, and improve support for Guile 2.0 and Scheme. It would be great if next intltool release could use native gettext scanners instead of its own.

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/tree/NEWS

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Piotr Drąg (piotrdrag) wrote on 2016-07-08:

Add JavaScript, Lua and Vala to $buildin_gettext_support Edit (811 bytes, text/plain)

Subject: [PATCH] Add JavaScript, Lua and Vala to $buildin_gettext_support

These formats are now natively supported by gettext.

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In Red Hat Bugzilla #1354066, Piotr (piotr-redhat-bugs) wrote on 2016-07-08:

Created attachment 1177790
Add JavaScript, Lua and Vala to $buildin_gettext_support

intltool is unmaintained upstream and it currently has a couple of bugs that are very problematic. One of them is that various formats are not detected by intltool-update:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/544445

https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1039983

I have submitted a simple patch that fixes the issue, but it is unlikely to get merged and released:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1325597

I'm asking to include the patch in the Fedora package.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2018-09-17