Am 14.06.26 um 19:52 schrieb Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget:

The gitk and git-gui catalog rules sent msgfmt --statistics output (and a
"Generating catalog" line) to stderr, so it survived "make -s". Emit it only
when "-s" is absent, keeping a quiet build silent and a verbose build
unchanged.

I think that the statistics output isn't needed. A data point is that
the Git repository doesn't use --statistics: 2f12b31b746c ("Makefile:
don't invoke msgfmt with --statistics", 2021-12-17). So, my suggestion
would be to just remove the option.

We don't need the "Generating catalog" message, either. Just remove it
as well.

-- Hannes