Bug#484721: No longer ships (and installs) /usr/share/intltool/*-update.in

[Sebastian Dröge]

forwarded 484721 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537352
thanks

Am Donnerstag, den 05.06.2008, 23:05 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Package: intltool
> Version: 0.40.0-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: should not enter testing in this state
> 
> Hi,
> 
> almost any GNOME app out there has the following snippet in it's
> Makefile.am:
> 
> EXTRA_DIST = \
>         intltool-extract.in \
>         intltool-merge.in \
>         intltool-update.in
> 
> The expectation is, that intltoolize copies these files (or symlinks them) and 
> they are included in the tarball.
> 
> With the latest upgrade, this not only breaks VCS checkouts, which now
> have dangling symlinks, it also makes the upgrade path unnecessary
> painful, as the Makefile.am can not be changed withouth bumping the
> intltool requirement to 0.40.0, which means everyone has to upgrade at
> once (a lot of current distributions don't ship intltool 0.40.0).
> 
> My recommendation would be, to put the /usr/share/intltool/*-update.in
> files back into intltool.
> If the requested intltool version (e.g. via IT_PROG_INTLTOOL) is <
> 0.40, intltool should behave backwards compatible and copy/symlink the
> intltool-*.in files as before.
> 
> This allows all distros out there to smoothly upgrade to intltool >=
> 0.40 and then upstream can safely bump the intltool requirement to >=
> 0.40. In this mode, intltool would not copy the *.in files anymore and
> the EXTRA_DIST bits would have to be removed from the Makefile.amS.

Thanks for reporting and the possible solution. I've forwarded this
upstream now, let's hope they fix it for next release :)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537352
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