comps-po - What is the purpose of tags in newly introduced lines and how do they work?

[Bill Nottingham]

Miloš Komarčević (kmilos at gmail.com) said: 
> I think this is a bug, these strings serve no purpose in a
> translatable file imho.

Right, there's an intltool problem that is causing those to
end up in the po files.

Bill