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. Cheers, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.4 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages intltool depends on: ii automake [automaken] 1:1.10.1-3 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.7 [automaken] 1.7.9-9 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.8 [automaken] 1.8.5+nogfdl-2 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.9 [automaken] 1.9.6+nogfdl-3 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii file 4.24-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii libxml-parser-perl 2.36-1.1+b1 Perl module for parsing XML files ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl 5.10.0-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction intltool recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]