Eric Blake wrote:
> forcemerge 11470 11740
> thanks
>
> On 06/19/2012 07:35 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
>> While translating the coreutils messages to German I stumbled over the
>> message for src/fmt.c:285 in coreutils.pot which is erroneously marked
>> c-format. This will make msgfmt fail because it thinks that the percentage
>> sign in »(default of 93% of width)« is a format specification and stops
>> because of differing format specification between msgid and msgstr.
>> Manually removing the c-format comment line will make msgfmt succeed.
>
> You're the sixth person to report this.  It has already been fixed for
> the next release of coreutils.
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=e2bd5cda0a34
>
> Perhaps it would be worth pushing an updated coreutils.pot to the
> translation project without waiting for the next coreutils release, if
> only to stop these bug reports from continuing to come in.

Thanks.  I was about to write the same thing.
I've attached the latest .pot and Cc'd the TP coordinator.