Bug#950444: #950444: intltool: race condition with cache files

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2020-02-01, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> A fix for a race condition was submitted upstream. The effects result in
> partial or completely missing translations. The Reproducible Builds
> folks have identified over twenty packages which may be affected:
>
>   https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/translations_missing_in_desktop_files_issue.html

Updated url for affected packages:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/translations_missing_due_to_intltool_merge_issue.html


> The fix was submitted and merged upstream some years ago, but a new
> release was never made:
>
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1687644
>   https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~intltool/intltool/trunk/revision/748

I've submitted a merge request to the gnome-team for the original patch,
with some minor typos fixed in the commit message:

  https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/intltool/-/merge_requests/2


While there has been no upstream release of intltool in quite some
years, this patch has been in upstream revision control since 2017 (as
of now, it is the *only* patch that isn't already in the version in
Debian).

Please consider merging this patch and uploading, as it should fix
reproducibility issues for several other packages. Or would you consider
it acceptible to NMU?


Thanks!


live well,
  vagrant
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