[Po4a-Devel] Proper creation of pot files from man pages

Hello po4a maintainers, I'm Helge and I'm helping Mario to maintain the translation machinery of manpages-l10n. Recently several po4a tools started emitting warnings and ceased working as before. I read that "po4a" is the way to go, however, we seriously lack the man power (and knowledge) to rewrite the entire machinery. However, I'm gradully trying to improve the system where and when possible. For this, I have the follwing question: Given that I have a man page (in nroff or mdoc format) and I want to create a pot file from it (not po file, as this page is not yet translated). How is this done best/correctly? Quite a few explanations in the po4a man pages assume you already have some translated text. Currently I use something like: po4a-updatepo -f man \ --option groff_code=verbatim \ --option generated \ --option untranslated="a.RE,\|" \ --option unknown_macros=untranslated \ --master "$upstream_manpage" -M utf-8 \ -p $tmp1 | grep -v "po4a-updatepo is deprecated. The unified po4a(1) program is more convenient and less error prone." (Until very recently this used po4a-gettextize, but this stopped working) Thanks for any hints / pointers. Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian(a)helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/