[bug-gettext] [bug #44098] Check strings for common problems

[Daiki Ueno]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #44098 (project gettext):

Thanks, that's an interesting idea, but I don't think msgfmt is the right
place to add those checks.  The command is supposed to take a PO file rather
than a POT file as its input, and it would be annoying if the warnings were
issued when processing every PO file.

On the other hand, this sort of checks look analogous to syntax check rules in
Gnulib's maintainer-makefile, which some projects include in their
repositories to ease maintenance tasks (but not in distribution tarballs):
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/top/maint.mk#n147

So, as a first step we can provide those checks as a built-in subcommand of
msgexec, so they can be invoked from such a maintainer-makefiles.  Is this
approach feasible to the GNOME's use of gettext?


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