Package: gettext Version: 0.19.8.1-9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** The version of gettext in sid is very old, and has a lot of issues affecting security and reproducibility. Please update Debian's gettext to version 0.21 --- or at the very least to 0.20 which has been released since over a year. A very large number of packages depend upon gettext to this is quite pressing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gettext depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-9 ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libcroco3 0.6.12-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2 ii libgomp1 8.3.0-6 ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libunistring2 0.9.10-1 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3 Versions of packages gettext recommends: ii wget 1.20.1-1.1 Versions of packages gettext suggests: pn autopoint <none> pn gettext-doc <none> pn libasprintf-dev <none> pn libgettextpo-dev <none> -- no debconf information