Hello,

> On 14 Apr 2021, at 16:51, Valters Jansons <valter.jansons(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 6:20 PM Michael Tremer
> <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>> We have a command that automatically generates this file which would not respect this change:
>> 
>>  make update-po
> 
> $ git clone git://git.ipfire.org/location/libloc.git
> $ cd libloc
> $ autoreconf --install --symlink
> $ intltoolize --force --automake
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/lib
> $ rm po/POTFILES.in && make po/POTFILES.in
> $ make update-po
> 
> For me this appears to produce the exact diff that has been provided
> in the v2 patch.

After running those commands I see the following diff which almost entirely reverts all changes in your patch:

root(a)michael:/build/libloc# git diff
diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
index 5d2cc46..9088986 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 src/libloc.pc.in
-src/python/__init__.py.in
 src/python/database.py
 src/python/downloader.py
 src/python/export.py
 src/python/i18n.py
 src/python/importer.py
+src/python/__init__.py
+src/python/__init__.py.in
 src/python/location-importer.in
 src/python/location.in
 src/python/logger.py
diff --git a/po/de.po b/po/de.po
index 7083958..042e52a 100644
--- a/po/de.po
+++ b/po/de.po
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: libloc 0\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-04-14 12:00+0000\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-04-14 10:04+0000\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: 2018-02-01 14:05+0000\n"
 "Last-Translator: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>\n"
 "Language-Team: German\n"

>> Do you have a way to modify the find/grep construction so that it won’t include any files when a “.in” file is available. Maybe .gitignore is useful here, too?
> 
> Which target in which Makefile do you believe needs further modifications?
> 
> I really feel like I am missing something here.

What we would need is to have the command that generates POTFILES.in a mechanism that reads .gitignore and filters out what we do not want (in this case __init__.py).

Does that sound like it makes sense?

  https://git.ipfire.org/?p=location/libloc.git;a=blob;f=Makefile.am;h=e8ee791d57366088e9bcf9919e5eb8db4980f39d;hb=HEAD#l81

-Michael

> 
> --Valters