1436010 - Migration: a string including a message reference to non existing message should not be migrated

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Localization Infrastructure and Tools :: Fluent Migration, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

In migration for bug 1424682 we can end up creating files that only contain references to messages that don't actually exist.

These would only raise a warning in compare-locale, so these strings would be kept in the localization, and the string ID would be displayed at run-time (bug 1436009).

For example, we add

category-general
    .tooltiptext = { pane-general-title }

Even if pane-general-title doesn't exist in the localized file.

We should likely skip creating these if the message doesn't exist, and maybe only ignore terms references in this checks (they can be defined in a different file).

Comment 1

[Eemeli Aro [:eemeli]]

Closing as WONTFIX, as the migration isn't the right place to apply this check.