[bug#28423] gnu: Add imb-openmpi.

[Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> You didn’t ask though, did you?  ;-)

I thought I had, twice.  Oh, well, sorry!

>> of the doc string rules for translation, and why they seem to be
>> different from what gettext say in terms of placeholders in format
>> strings.  I think that needs documenting anyhow.
>
> In po/packages/Makevars, we define only two keywords for translatable
> strings: ‘synopsis’ and ‘description’.  Thus, xgettext will extract this
> string:
>
>   (synopsis "This is translatable")
>
> but it will not extract this:
>
>   (synopsis (string-append "This is " "not translatable"))

The question would have been why

  (format-string #f ("Package variant ~a is not translatable" x))

when the sprintf equivalent would be, as I understand what the gettext
doc says.