The following reply was made to PR pkg/33506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/33506 CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/tools
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:29:42 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	jlam
 Date:		Sat May 20 23:29:42 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/mk/tools: msgfmt.sh
 
 Log Message:
 Modify msgfmt.sh to make the following changes when filtering *.po files:
 
 	msgid		-> msgid ""
 	msgid"..."	-> msgid "..."
 	msgstr		-> msgstr ""
 	msgstr"..."	-> msgstr "..."
 
 The filtered *.po files can then be processed by msgfmt<=0.10.35.
 
 These changes workaround bugs in *.po files in software of the "all
 the world runs Linux" variety where the software author either willfully
 or stupidly can't follow the format for *.po files described in section
 2.2 of the gettext info manual and, in addition, makes lame excuses
 when confronted with the evidence.
 
 This closes PR pkg/33506 by Ben Collver.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.18 -r1.19 pkgsrc/mk/tools/msgfmt.sh
 
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