Onboarded ``msgcat`` binary is broken

[egeakman]

msgcat -o file.po file.po command produces syntax errors in .po files.

Turns

#: library/stdtypes.rst:419 library/stdtypes.rst:1171
#: library/stdtypes.rst:2397 library/stdtypes.rst:3615
msgid "\\(4)"
msgstr "\\(4)"

to

#: library/stdtypes.rst:419 library/stdtypes.rst:1171
#: library/stdtypes.rst:2397
 library/stdtypes.rst:3615
msgid "\\(4)"
msgstr "\\(4)"

which is syntactically wrong. However, on some files, it does keep it the correct way. The above example is from python/python-docs-tr (library/stdtypes.po).

It also adds whitespace at the top of the first msgid-msgstr pair.

# Python Documentation Turkish Translation
# Copyright (C) 2001-2023, Python Software Foundation
# This file is distributed under the same license as the Python package.
-#
+# 
msgid ""
msgstr ""

Using other binaries, however, doesn't produce any of these errors.

[dscho]

Is this an issue also with regular MSYS2?

[egeakman]

Is this an issue also with regular MSYS2?

Tried it just now, and yes. Should I move this issue to https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages?

[dscho]

Should I move this issue to https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages?

Yes, I would strongly advise to do that.

[egeakman]

Sorry, I didn't know about the other repo at the time.