Bug#851868: patch - fix out-of-tree build (e.g. 'make distcheck') with automake >= 1.15

[Michael Biebl]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:53:57 +0300 =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZCBPcmxvdg==?=
<monsta at inbox.ru> wrote:
> Source: intltool
> Version: 0.51.0-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: stretch sid patch
> 
> 
> This had been reported upstream (and for Ubuntu) at [1].
> 
> Out-of-tree builds, including 'make distcheck', are broken with automake >= 1.15.
> Because of this, various projects that make use of intltool had to add weird
> workarounds, as can be seen at [2] or [3].
> 
> Patch for this issue had been submitted at LP bug. Debdiff with the patch is in
> the attachment. Please consider applying it in Stretch (Jessie has automake 1.14
> so intltool is not affected there).
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1117944
> [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/po/POTFILES.skip?id=5e0db6aaeb0e88161a0bb76fac5293c4dec22ed1
> [3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/po/POTFILES.skip?id=66c3b673e32b7d055349a2a96ca2c2dfbbfc03ba
Thanks for the patch. I think this should really be fixed upstream. If
we apply that downstream it doesn't really help for other upstream projects.
I'm aware that intltool upstream development is basically dead, so we
are in a bad situation currently and I'm not sure what to do about this.

Michael

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