Comment 5 for bug 978724

Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: pkgbinarymangler should build a tarball for pot import even when translations are not stripped

> It does *not* need to be generated during build.

So far it has been our strategy to do exactly that, and even in the case of update-notifier this should still happen. NB that this really just means "generated", not "shipped".

> In fact, generating .pot files during build is actively harmful if you have gettext domains for multiarch libraries.

How would it be harmful?