Re: gettext is one minor rev too old

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 1/11/2016 11:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 January 2016 00:29:38 Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > On 1/10/2016 7:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > geda-gaf is refusing to autoconfig, gettext is 0.18.1-1.9, and I
> > > need 0.18.2 or better.
> > >
> > > Is there a deb repo I can raid just for that?
> >
> > If I read this thread correctly, I think
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gettext
> >
> > will answer your question(s).
>
> it only returned Jessie packages, but they turned out to be the same as
> wheezy-backports were. I let it update to the backports (around 350
> packages) about 2 hours back, and it looks the same, but feels better.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

That is *NOT* what I get.
The portion of what I see bearing on your question is:

/begin quotation


You have searched for packages that names contain gettext in all 
suites, all sections, and all architectures. Found 39 matching 
packages.
Exact hits
Package gettext

    squeeze (oldoldstable) (devel): GNU Internationalization 
utilities
    0.18.1.1-3: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 
kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
    wheezy (oldstable) (devel): GNU Internationalization utilities
    0.18.1.1-9: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 
kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
    wheezy-backports (devel): GNU Internationalization utilities
    0.19.3-2~bpo70+1: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 
kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
    jessie (stable) (devel): GNU Internationalization utilities
    0.19.3-2: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mipsel powerpc 
ppc64el s390x
    stretch (testing) (devel): GNU Internationalization utilities
    0.19.7-2: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mipsel powerpc 
ppc64el s390x
    sid (unstable) (devel): GNU Internationalization utilities
    0.19.7-2: alpha amd64 arm64 armel armhf hppa hurd-i386 i386 
kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 ppc64el 
s390x sparc64 x32
    0.19.6-1 [debports]: m68k sh4
    0.19.3-2 [debports]: powerpcspe
/end quotation

The top of the page allows the user refine the search by clicking 
on desired suite and/or architecture.
Below the quoted excerpt is a very long list of "other hits".

As do not have my Debian machine on the internet, I used 
SeaMonkey 2.26.1 under (gasp;) WinXP Pro SP3. The same is 
displayed using IE8. Something is odd ;/