Hello, As a result of http://bugs.debian.org/516526 , I intent to change the "type" comments in po4a to extracted comments. Extracted comments are maintained automatically by gettext (info gettext "PO Files") This means that: # type: textblock #: doc/po4a.7.pod:326 msgid "" ... will be changed to: #. type: textblock #: doc/po4a.7.pod:326 msgid "" ... One drawback is that after updating (po4a-updatepo), this will result in: # type: textblock #. type: textblock #: doc/po4a.7.pod:326 msgid "" ... It will be up to the translators to remove this redundant line # type: textblock (or not to remove it - this is not an issue for the PO file itself) I think this is more valid since "# " introduce a translator comment. Also this will fix the desynchronization of the type which currently occur with po4a PO files. Any comment? Best Regards, -- Nekral