Thursday, July 16, 2009

Issues with po4a

One of the first things I noticed when I began converting files with po4a, was the fact that po4a would sometimes exit with an error, even if the file was valid wml. This is a problem for files like download.wml where a special link-format is used to make sure every page shows the same version number (and points to the latest release).

Also, when converting a file from .wml to .po for the first time, a header will be added containing the following information:

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR.

It would be nice to have a header that doesn't assign copyright to FSF (or not have a header at all). I have talked to the maintainer of po4a who said he would take a look at these two issues during his two weeks at Debconf.

I have also written two bug reports:
#537236: please add support for valid wml
#537245: modify header in .po

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