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Subject: [bug#38436] [PATCH] gnu: Add gfortran-toolchain
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

> There=E2=80=99s this weird requirement that for the sake of i18n, we must=
 not
> construct synopses/descriptions like this:
>
>   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Synopses-and-Description=
s.html

Is that a specific rule for Guix? GNU gettext allows format strings,
and its manual refers to

  https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib/Format-Specification.html

for format string syntax in Scheme. For Guile specifically,
it refers to (ice-9 format).

Cheers,
  Konrad