Time to time, it's a good idea just to check how good the templates are. Here is a small patch that adds a target "check" for finding out the obvious errors. -- Misha Index: Makefile.in =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mailman/mailman/messages/Makefile.in,v retrieving revision 2.19 diff -u -b -r2.19 Makefile.in --- Makefile.in 6 Mar 2002 05:05:51 -0000 2.19 +++ Makefile.in 14 Mar 2002 23:51:08 -0000 @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ catalogs: $(TARGETS) +check: + @for file in $(POFILES); do echo "Checking $$file"; msgfmt -o /dev/null --statistics -v $$file; done + install: doinstall # we should depend on the .mo files instead of making them!