Javascript files are not checked for left out files
Bug #544445 reported by
Claude Paroz
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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intltool |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
With intltool-update -m, Javascript (.js) files are not checked if they are omitted from POTFILES.in. Now that GNOME is using more and more Javascript, this is becoming a crucial issue (see e.g. https:/
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I agree this is important to fix, but it's not that easy: JavaScript files are not natively supported by xgettext (i.e. try creating a JS file with a single-quoted string), so that's not going to work. We'll probably have to pass a suitable xgettext -L option for them, but ideally, someone would add native JavaScript support to gettext.