Re: gettext fix

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Tomasz K³oczko wrote:

> I have sugestion for GNOME maintainers to apply included patch to gettext
> (patch is against 0.10.35).
> 
> This patch modify:
> 
> - remove $(GMOFILES) from $(DISTFILES) in po/Makefile.in.in - this removes
>   copying .gmo files on "make dist"; .gmo files is not neccesary in dist
>   tarball (smaler dist tar); this file is copied from
>   $(datadir)/gettext/po on "gettext --copy --force" to po/ directory,

The GNU policy of providing .gmo files inside the tarball ensures that the
user do not need to have the gettext tools installed to be able to compile
and install a getttexized package.

I don't see a great benefit in making the Debian version to be
different than the GNU version in this respect.

Thanks.

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