Bug#400957: lintian: [checks/po-debconf] needs --use-untranslated when invoking msgcmp (getext 0.16)
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>> 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).
> Yes, gettext is frozen, but I hope the release managers let it
> propagate to etch in the near future, for several reasons:
> *) It fixes an important bug (#400187).
> *) It would allow automake 1.10 to be in etch too (automake 1.10 do
> not work with gettext 0.15).
That would be nice.
> *) According to the author, the change from 0.15 to 0.16 should be
> smooth (expect, maybe, the new msgcmp behaviour).
That the msgcmp change is annoying for lintian is, I think, an artifact of
the fact that lintian is doing something weird and not really the fault of
gettext. Okay, I'll ponder how best to fix lintian.
Thanks for the information!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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