Noticed this during configure phase: [snip] checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/gmsgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext ./configure: line 14243: ./po/POTFILES.in: No such file or directory checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking paths.h usability... yes checking paths.h presence... yes [/snip]
this is a gettext check that we can't workaround besides useless sed in configure maybe. This doesn't harm building the package anyway, there is no translation.