[bug #60765] msgmerge seems not to use plural forms from compendium

[Eric Greveson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60765>

                 Summary: msgmerge seems not to use plural forms from
compendium
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: ericgreveson
            Submitted on: Thu 10 Jun 2021 12:42:54 PM UTC
                Category: Plural forms
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I have come across behaviour that I think might be a bug in msgmerge (it's
possible that I have misunderstood something or made a mistake elsewhere, but
I've read the docs and tried the latest release of msgmerge, and I don't see
anything obvious).

The issue is with plural forms in a compendium (supplied with -C flag to
msgmerge) not being used to update empty translations in a target po-file.
Repro case files attached. To reproduce, run the following command:
msgmerge --update repro.po repro.po -C comp.po

Expected behaviour: both strings in repro.po get updated with the translations
in comp.po.

Observed behaviour: the (non-plural) translation for "Active filters" gets
applied to repro.po successfully, but the plural translation "Since yesterday"
remains blank (untranslated).

Please let me know if any more info is required; also, if this is a bug, but
you think there is an easy workaround, that would be helpful to know as well.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Thu 10 Jun 2021 12:42:54 PM UTC  Name: comp.po  Size: 416B   By:
ericgreveson
Repro case
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=51536>
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Date: Thu 10 Jun 2021 12:42:54 PM UTC  Name: repro.po  Size: 361B   By:
ericgreveson
Repro case
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=51537>

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