[DRE-maint] Bug#716916: Bug#716916: ruby-gettext: rxgettext doubles the backslashes in newline '\n' characters

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Control: tag -1 + upstream

Hi Francesco,

Francesco Poli (wintermute):
> First of all, thanks a lot for fixing the bugs I have previously
> reported (#684182, #684184, and #692487)!

And thanks for your reports! :)

> I noticed something new in rxgettext, and it looks like a newly
> introduced bug.
> […]
> Why all the newline '\n' characters are produced with doubled
> backslashes (as "\\n")?
> I do not see this behavior, if I use xgettext (from the gettext
> package).

After some bisection, it has been introduced in upstream commit
ef467007b, first appeared in version 2.3.0. This looks intentional.
I will ask upstream.

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