After a little pestering by André I’ve made the following changes regarding PO file checking on git.gnome.org:
- PO files are actually checked using msgfmt
- Added a simple check to ensure keyword header in .desktop is properly translated
That PO files weren’t checked for syntax issues was pretty surprising for me, it seems no translator ever uploaded a PO file with a wrong syntax, else I assume the sysadmin team would’ve received a bugreport/ticket.
The check for a properly translated keyword header is implemented using sed:
sed -rn '/^#: [^\n]+\.desktop/{:start /\nmsgstr/!{N;b start};/\nmsgid [^\n]+;"/{/\nmsgstr [^\n]+;"/!p}}'
Or in English: match from /^#: .*\.desktop/ until /\nmsgstr/. Then if there is a msgid ending with ";, check if there also is a msgstr ending with ;". If msgstr doesn’t end with ;" but all other conditions apply: print the buffer (so #: line up to msgstr). The git hook itself just looks if the output is empty or not.
Example of the error message.
$ git push Counting objects: 23, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 313 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: --- remote: The following translation (.po) file should ensure the translated content ends with a semicolon. (When updating branch 'master'.) remote: remote: po/sl.po remote: remote: The following part of the file fails to do this. Please correct the translation and try to push again. remote: remote: #: ../data/nautilus.desktop.in.in.h:3 remote: msgid "folder;manager;explore;disk;filesystem;" remote: msgstr "mapa;upravljalnik;datoteke;raziskovalec;datotečni sistem;disk" remote: remote: After making fixes, modify your commit to include them, by doing: remote: remote: git add sl.po remote: git commit --amend remote: remote: If you have any further problems or questions, please contact the GNOME Translation Project mailing list <gnome-i18n@gnome.org>. Thank you. remote: --- To ssh://git.gnome.org/git/nautilus ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git.gnome.org/git/nautilus'
Note: explanation can probably be improved. The check is not just for Keywords, also for other things like e.g. mime types, etc.