Bug#400957: lintian: [checks/po-debconf] needs --use-untranslated when invoking msgcmp (getext 0.16)
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Russ Allbery написа:
> Damyan Ivanov <dam@modsoftsys.com> writes:
>> Russ Allbery написа:
>
>>> I can't do that because no version of msgcmp prior to 0.16 supports
>>> that flag and 0.16 is only in experimental. Making that change would
>>> require a dependency on 0.16, which would make lintian uninstallable in
>>> unstable.
>
>> gettext 0.16.1 was uploaded to unstable a couple of days ago :)
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gettext/news/20061127T231703Z.html
>
>> It seems that lintian indeed needs to depend on gettext >= 0.16 after all.
>
> Ah, I see, my packages list was two days out of date, which is why I
> couldn't install it.
>
> This is still really unappealing and quite annoying, since it means that
> lintian won't work on sarge without a lot of hacking; that makes
> resurrecting lintian.debian.org before the etch release more difficult.
> Isn't there some other option?
Detecting gettext version in runtime and adding --use-untranslated
accordingly?
I could provide a patch for this, but it will be a hack (and I am not
very used to lintian internals so the patch quality will be unknown.
> If not, are you absolutely certain that this version of gettext will make
> it into etch?
Who, me? :) Not at all. gettext is currently frozen.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gettext.html
Perhaps gettext maintainer can say more (CC-ed).
However, if gettext doesn't enter testing and you upload lintian version,
depending on gettext >= 0.16, it will not make it to Etch either (because
of getext staying out). There will be a problem for Etch only if gettext enters
testing, but lintian doesn't. The other possible problem case is what we have
now in unstable.
Maybe debian-release may give some ideas how best to solve this?
dam, going to bed
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