[DRE-maint] Bug#726946: ruby-gettext: rxgettext writes location paths relative to output file directory

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: ruby-gettext
Version: 3.0.2-2
Severity: normal

Hi again!

I noticed something really weird in rxgettext.
It seems that its output .pot file includes location paths relative to
the destination directory, rather than to the current working directory!

I am not sure this causes problems with ruby-gettext library, but it
sure looks unusual and awkward.

I'll show the issue with my usual test case, described in
bug #684182 [1].

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/684182

Let's start with the example application in a directory:

  $ tree
  .
  └── myapplication.rb

  0 directories, 1 file

Then, let's create a subdirectory:

  $ mkdir po

and create the .pot file with xgettext:

  $ xgettext --add-comments=TRANSLATORS --no-wrap \
             --copyright-holder="Francesco Poli" \
             --package-name=myapplication --package-version=0.1 \
             --msgid-bugs-address="address at example.com" \
             --language=python \
             myapplication.rb -o po/myapplication_XGETTEXT.pot
  $ cat po/myapplication_XGETTEXT.pot
  # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
  # Copyright (C) YEAR Francesco Poli
  # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
  # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL at ADDRESS>, YEAR.
  #
  #, fuzzy
  msgid ""
  msgstr ""
  "Project-Id-Version: myapplication 0.1\n"
  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: address at example.com\n"
  "POT-Creation-Date: 2013-10-20 22:35+0200\n"
  "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
  "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n"
  "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL at li.org>\n"
  "Language: \n"
  "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
  
  #: myapplication.rb:24
  msgid "Hello everybody!\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: myapplication.rb:27
  msgid "You are running an internationalized Ruby program.\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #. TRANSLATORS: %d is the number of already printed messages
  #: myapplication.rb:31
  #, python-format
  msgid "You have already seen %d translatable messages.\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: myapplication.rb:33
  msgid "Is this message # 3 or # 4 ?\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: myapplication.rb:35
  msgid "OK, I am tired...\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: myapplication.rb:37
  msgid "Goodbye!\n"
  msgstr ""

This is OK.
Let's try with rxgettext:

  $ rxgettext --add-comments=TRANSLATORS --no-wrap \
              --copyright-holder="Francesco Poli" \
              --package-name=myapplication --package-version=0.1 \
              --msgid-bugs-address="address at example.com" \
              myapplication.rb -o po/myapplication_RXGETTEXT.pot
  $ cat po/myapplication_RXGETTEXT.pot
  # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
  # Copyright (C) YEAR Francesco Poli
  # This file is distributed under the same license as the myapplication package.
  # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL at ADDRESS>, YEAR.
  #
  #, fuzzy
  msgid ""
  msgstr ""
  "Project-Id-Version: myapplication 0.1\n"
  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: address at example.com\n"
  "POT-Creation-Date: 2013-10-20 22:39+0200\n"
  "PO-Revision-Date: 2013-10-20 22:39+0200\n"
  "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n"
  "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL at li.org>\n"
  "Language: \n"
  "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
  "Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"
  
  #: ../myapplication.rb:24
  msgid "Hello everybody!\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: ../myapplication.rb:27
  msgid "You are running an internationalized Ruby program.\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #. TRANSLATORS: %d is the number of already printed messages
  #: ../myapplication.rb:31
  msgid "You have already seen %d translatable messages.\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: ../myapplication.rb:33
  msgid "Is this message # 3 or # 4 ?\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: ../myapplication.rb:35
  msgid "OK, I am tired...\n"
  msgstr ""
  
  #: ../myapplication.rb:37
  msgid "Goodbye!\n"
  msgstr ""


Please note that the location paths are "../myapplication.rb", rather
than "myapplication.rb".
I think that rxgettext should behave like xgettext in this respect.

Please fix this bug and/or forward this bug report upstream.
Thanks for your time!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ruby-gettext depends on:
ii  ruby                          1:1.9.3
ii  ruby-locale                   2.0.8-1
ii  ruby-text                     1.2.1-1
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.358-8
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.448-1

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