[bug-gettext] could msgcat create a malformed header ?

[Raphaël]

It seems that msgcat may create an invalid header (at least "invalid" as
in "cannot be parsed by poedit").

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> file1.po
$ cat file1.po 
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-03-13 19:05+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2013-03-13 19:05+0100\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"

#: /location:here
msgid "str1"
msgstr "none"
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A) concat file1.po with itself:

$ msgcat file1.po file1.po
# resulting header is ok, poedit is happy


B) concat file1.po with a slightly modified version where only the
Revision-Date has been modified:
$ sed -i '/Revision-Date/s/19:05/19:06/' file1.po > file2.po

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
$ msgcat file1.po file2.po
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"#-#-#-#-#  file1.po (PROJECT)  #-#-#-#-#\n"
"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-03-13 19:05+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2013-03-13 19:05+0100\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
"#-#-#-#-#  file2.po (PROJECT)  #-#-#-#-#\n"
"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-03-13 19:05+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2013-03-13 19:06+0100\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"

#: /location:here
msgid "str1"
msgstr "none"
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1) notice the "fuzzy" on the first line
2) try to open such a file using poedit, it will warn:
> Malformed header: '#-#-#-#-#  file1.po (PROJECT)  #-#-#-#-#'

Is poedit expected to parse such a heading line or is msgcat wrong in
generating such a header ?


(Using poedit 1.4.6.1 and gettext 0.18.1.1)


regards