po4a

Install command:
brew install po4a

Documentation translation maintenance tool

https://po4a.org

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/po4a.json

Formula code: po4a.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.74
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 2

Depends on:

gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

docbook-xsl 1.79.2 XML vocabulary to create presentation-neutral documents

Uses from macOS: libxslt, perl

Binaries: msguntypot, po4a, po4a-display-man, po4a-display-pod, po4a-gettextize, po4a-normalize, po4a-translate, po4a-updatepo

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

CVE-2026-85644 XS::Parse::Infix versions from 0.40 through 0.49 for Perl treat a number as an array reference.
CVE-2026-8594 (medium) Text::LineFold versions through 2019.001 for Perl duplicate the output based on the number of spe...

Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns po4a for a live check.

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