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Re: Compile error due to po/fr.po on old gettext in v2.21.0

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Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>
Date
Feb 25, 2019, 20:54 UTC
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On Monday, 25 February 2019 21:19:53 CET Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On a NetBSD test box I have with msgfmt 0.14.4 v2.21.0 fails to compile.
> 
> I didn't spot this in rc2 because b3225a4183 ("l10n: fr.po v2.21.0 rnd
> 2", 2019-02-13) along with the rest of i18n updates gets pulled in after
> all the RCs.
> 
> I.e. this is because of the comments being parsed (fuzzy comments).
> 
> The 0.14.4 gettext release was back in 2005, so presumably this is due
> to some GPLv3 allergy of NetBSD's. The OS version itself is 7.1,
> released a couple of years ago.
> 

I kept the commented entries as a translation memory, even when they are fuzzy.

Would unfuzzying these entries resolve the issue?
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2019
  2. Jean-Noël AVILAFeb 25, 2019
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2019
  4. Jiang XinFeb 26, 2019
  5. l10n: fr.po unfuzzy commented entriesJean-Noël Avila, Feb 25, 2019
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2019
  7. Jean-Noël AVILAFeb 26, 2019
  8. l10n: fr.po remove obsolete entriesJean-Noël Avila, Feb 26, 2019
  9. Jiang XinFeb 27, 2019

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