Bug#374483: gettext does not detect "gettext" and "eval_gettext" strings in Shell scripts (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Received this from the Debian BTS:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michelle Konzack <address@hidden>
To: BTS <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:21:06 +0200
Subject: Bug#374483: gettext does not detect "gettext" and "eval_gettext"
    strings in Shell scripts

Package: gettext
Version: 0.14.4-2
Severity: important

I have set this bug to important, since I must edit ALL POT files by
hand which are created from BASH scripts using $() constructs

Error description:

If I create my POT file, gettext does not detect gettext strings if I
use for example

Xdialog --title "gettext test" \
        --backtitle "$(gettext 'This is a gettext test.')" \
        --msgbox "$(gettext 'Hey maintainer, I like gettext supporting this.')" 
0x0

same if I use

TEXT="$(gettext 'Hey maintainer, I like gettext supporting this.')"

I think, gettext should detect stings like

        $(gettext '...')

Maybe you should forward this to upstream...

Greetings
    Michelle


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.1
Kernel Version: Linux michelle1.private 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 
2005 i686 GNU/Linux


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