Re: [bug-gettext] Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER) (fwd)

[Daiki Ueno]

Francesco Poli <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:48:20 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote:
>
>> > I noticed that xgettext does not properly replace all the relevant
>> > placeholders in the output .pot file, when told to do so through
>> > command-line options.
>> 
>> I doubt if it is meaningful to have a real copyright notice in an
>> auto-generated template file.
>
> Well, the auto-generated .pot file is auto-generated by extracting many
> strings from a number of copyrighted source code files.
> I think that, in most cases, this implies that the .pot file is
> copyrighted and has the same copyright owners and copyright years as
> the source files.
> As a consequence, I think it makes definitely sense for it to carry
> real copyright notices (the same that cover the source files, in most
> cases).

Yes.  However, xgettext is not intended for generating a real header
entry, but for generating a template of a header entry.

If one really wants to carry a real copyright notice in a POT file, she
could easily do that from without xgettext, e.g., in the toplevel
Makefile.am:

dist-hook:
        echo "# Copyright (C) ..." >> $(distdir)/po/hello.pot

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno