We should have some pre-commit hooks for the translations in svn. Namely svn should check the syntax of uploaded po files using "msgfmt -c" and it should reject the po files, when they do not pass that check. That would help us a great deal...
CC: (none) => filip.komar
As in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095 I recommend to look at how KDE has done it: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kde-common/svn/hooks/test-pofiles.pl?revision=1099588&view=markup probably, though http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kde-common/svn/hooks/ may contain more interesting ...
CC: (none) => bald
Old mail from misc about that: https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-i18n/2011-May/001549.html
Besides check -c I suggest also option to unify line length of po files too as they are messy right now: msgmerge -c -w 80
Let's ping Colin on that one after Mageia 5 is released, he's currently quite busy fixing release_blockers ;-)
CC: (none) => remi