[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1074706: msgfmt change breaks build

[Peter B]

On 11/07/2024 02:34, David Bannon wrote:
>
> Peter, I can confirm this is a "new and improved" thing in Trixie with 
> msgfmt. Quite an unnecessary one too IMHO.  However its there.
>
> FPC has nine or ten *.po files that will trigger the problem, so, not 
> just dwriter.de.po I am afraid.
>
> If your suggestion is to edit fpc build scripts, that will make the 
> translations unavailable (obviously), do you intend to feed this bug 
> back to FPC ?  I will if you don't so the next release will at least 
> translate correctly.
>
> Davo
>

Hi Davo,

please raise this as a formal bug upstream with FPC.
I have mentioned it on the forum, and will try to come up with a patch 
in the meantime.

Cheers,
Peter