Hello Santiago, Thanks for the forward.
It's fixed through https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=d64216aecaf15883c944539657562127b10d0e1a As this was a regression in version 0.22, I encourage you to apply the fix (attached) in Debian. Bruno
>From d64216aecaf15883c944539657562127b10d0e1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:05:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] xgettext: PO: Fix error when a --exclude-file option is present (regression 2023-03-10). Reported by Nicolas Peugnet <n.peug...@free.fr> via Santiago Vila at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2024-07/msg00030.html>. * gettext-tools/src/x-po.c (extract_add_message): If the message is the header entry and is among the messages to exclude, save the header charset from it before discarding it. --- diff --git a/gettext-tools/src/x-po.c b/gettext-tools/src/x-po.c index 740aa3d89..a91564535 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/src/x-po.c +++ b/gettext-tools/src/x-po.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* xgettext PO, JavaProperties, and NXStringTable backends. - Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2003, 2005-2006, 2008-2009, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1995-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file was written by Peter Miller <mill...@canb.auug.org.au> @@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ extract_add_message (default_catalog_reader_ty *this, char *prev_msgid_plural, bool force_fuzzy, bool obsolete) { - /* See whether we shall exclude this message. */ - if (exclude != NULL && message_list_search (exclude, msgctxt, msgid) != NULL) - goto discard; - /* If the msgid is the empty string, it is the old header. Throw it away, we have constructed a new one. Only remember its charset. But if no new one was constructed, keep the old header. This is useful @@ -111,6 +107,10 @@ extract_add_message (default_catalog_reader_ty *this, return; } + /* See whether we shall exclude this message. */ + if (exclude != NULL && message_list_search (exclude, msgctxt, msgid) != NULL) + goto discard; + /* Invoke superclass method. */ default_add_message (this, msgctxt, msgid, msgid_pos, msgid_plural, msgstr, msgstr_len, msgstr_pos,
