617391 - Test .po files for validity when updating them

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 875313

(Input :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

When the autol10n script compiles .mo files, it should check them for validity, to at least make sure all %s instances are present.

Comment 1

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

I started on something like this after a recent localizer typo.

https://github.com/jbalogh/tower/commit/checkpo

It was too noisy on amo since we had a mix of python and php interpolations. It may be better now that we're not amalgamating.

Comment 2

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

In July 2013, I wrote a utility called dennis (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dennis) and tweaked the deployment process for Input to use dennis to lint .po files for issues that cause production problems before compiling them to .mo files. In this way, problems that crash production no longer make it to production.

Marking this as a duplicate of that bug.