Paul Wise: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > >> should be removed from Debian and if some package still use it should >> use new intltool instead > > Unfortunately, at this time there are 3 packages in Debian still > depending on it: > > lintian (core QA tool, equivalent of rpmlint) > po-debconf (core i18n tool) > localechooser (build-depends) (part of the Debian installer) > With intltool-debian being (de-facto?) orphaned for up to 10 years, I suspect it might be prudent to abandon ship on the Debian-specific version of this tool. I appreciate this might be easier said than done. Especially considering I have no idea about what Debian-specific changes we applied to intltool. If the description holds and it is "just" the RFC822/Deb822 format, maybe we can "just" get that upstreamed and be done with it? Thanks, ~Niels
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