Building "make distcheck", I saw this go by: /usr/bin/xgettext: warning: The option --msgid-bugs-address was not specified. If you are using a `Makevars' file, please specify the MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS variable there; otherwise please specify an --msgid-bugs-address command line option. Here's the part of Makevars where that's defined: # This is the email address or URL to which the translators shall report # bugs in the untranslated strings: # - Strings which are not entire sentences, see the maintainer guidelines # in the GNU gettext documentation, section 'Preparing Strings'. # - Strings which use unclear terms or require additional context to be # understood. # - Strings which make invalid assumptions about notation of date, time or # money. # - Pluralisation problems. # - Incorrect English spelling. # - Incorrect formatting. # It can be your email address, or a mailing list address where translators # can write to without being subscribed, or the URL of a web page through # which the translators can contact you. MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ I figure it's better to point people at the Fedora Translation pages than at libvirt's mailing list. I had to propagate this into libvirt.pot as well to avoid a "make distcheck" failure when update-po would try to move the just-changed libvirt.po onto a read-only libvirt.pot file because of the differing Report-Msgid-Bugs-To line. From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:23:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] avoid xgettext warning aboug bug-reporting address * po/Makevars (MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS): Set, to avoid xgettext warning. * po/libvirt.pot: Set bug-reporting address. --- po/Makevars | 2 +- po/libvirt.pot | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/po/Makevars b/po/Makevars index 32692ab..9fbda10 100644 --- a/po/Makevars +++ b/po/Makevars @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ COPYRIGHT_HOLDER = Free Software Foundation, Inc. # It can be your email address, or a mailing list address where translators # can write to without being subscribed, or the URL of a web page through # which the translators can contact you. -MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = +MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ # This is the list of locale categories, beyond LC_MESSAGES, for which the # message catalogs shall be used. It is usually empty. diff --git a/po/libvirt.pot b/po/libvirt.pot index 92d6d88..23e6987 100644 --- a/po/libvirt.pot +++ b/po/libvirt.pot @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" -"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" +"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: http://translate.fedoraproject.org/\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2008-12-04 16:26+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" -- 1.6.1.rc3.350.g541da