Had a chance to look at the source; line 573 of intltool-update.in looks a bit incriminating (I'm using intltool-update and it looks like the fix was only for intltool-extract).
Had a chance to look at the source; line 573 of intltool-update.in looks a bit incriminating (I'm using intltool-update and it looks like the fix was only for intltool-extract).