You can check if a PO file is valid with the following command:

        msgfmt -c -o /dev/null <po file>
      

The following errors were found in po4a 's PO files:

gettext: po/pod/sr_Cyrl.po: pod not a language code
gettext: po/pod/zh_Hans.po: pod not a language code
gettext: po/pod/zh_Hant.po: pod not a language code
      

Please ask the translator (identified by the Last-Translator field in the PO file), the language team (identified by the Language-Team field) or debian-i18n for a fix.