[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#881889: shadow: Please switch from gnome-doc-utils to pure gettext

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I figured just switching to itstool might be the most straight forward
> solution and fortunately for someone as lazy as me I found that
> apparently fedora has already done that via a patch!
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/shadow-utils/blob/master/f/shadow-4.6-use-itstool.patch

And apparently this is already merged upstream!

https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/184
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/6c6c8d3a33bba32277e1ed46f55df1e6dbc914b7

> 
> I tried building the debian package with this patch included,
> Unfortunately the result isn't perfect.
[...]

I've filed an upstream issue about the regressions including
suggested (proof of concept) solutions at:
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/193


Regards,
Andreas Henriksson