--- /usr/lib/python2.3/gettext.py	2006-03-08 07:52:07.000000000 +0100
+++ /home/syt/cvs_work/gettext.py	2006-04-24 14:53:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -261,19 +261,18 @@
             # See if we're looking at GNU .mo conventions for metadata
             if mlen == 0:
                 # Catalog description
+                # don't handle multi-lines fields here, and skip
+                # lines which don't look like a header description
+                # (e.g. "header: value")
                 lastk = k = None
                 for item in tmsg.splitlines():
                     item = item.strip()
-                    if not item:
+                    if not item or not ':' in item:
                         continue
-                    if ':' in item:
-                        k, v = item.split(':', 1)
-                        k = k.strip().lower()
-                        v = v.strip()
-                        self._info[k] = v
-                        lastk = k
-                    elif lastk:
-                        self._info[lastk] += '\n' + item
+                    k, v = item.split(':', 1)
+                    k = k.strip().lower()
+                    v = v.strip()
+                    self._info[k] = v
                     if k == 'content-type':
                         self._charset = v.split('charset=')[1]
                     elif k == 'plural-forms':