bug#13665: Question about the translation of double_to_human

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 02/10/2013 05:28 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I've cleaned this up in the attached so that both use the same
> method to output the messages, and both now enable these messages
> with the the same ---debug option.
> Also translations are removed from these messages,
> and a syntax check added to stop future translations sneaking in in future.

Great work, thanks.

Minor nit:
> diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
> index fbc64b4..09858a1 100644
> --- a/cfg.mk
> +++ b/cfg.mk
> @@ -521,6 +521,13 @@ sc_THANKS_in_duplicates:
>           && { echo '$(ME): remove the above names from THANKS.in'    \
>                 1>&2; exit 1; } || :
>  
> +# Look for developer diagnostics that are marked for translation.
> +# This won't find any for which devmsg's format string is on a separate line.
> +sc_marked_devdiagnostics:
> +     @prohibit='\<devmsg *\(.*_\(' \
> +     halt='found marked developer diagnostic(s)'                     \
> +       $(_sc_search_regexp)
> +

Shouldn't it be this pattern instead?
-       @prohibit='\<devmsg *\(.*_\(' \
+       @prohibit='\<devmsg *\( *_\(' \

And: do we need to reference Goeran's message to the ML?

Other than that:
+1

Have a nice day,
Berny