[patch] External intl/gettext-0.14.5

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 22:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:02 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> as mentioned before, here comes a patch
>>> * to convert apt-rpm to using gettext-0.14.5
>>> * to using an external "intl"
>>>
>>> *BEWARE*
>>>
>>> This patch requires all of my patches from earlier today to be applied
>>> before.
>>>
>>> This patch removes and adds a lot of files, in particular, it removes
>>> "intl/" entirely, adds many files to m4/ and adds some files to po/.
>>
>> I'd rather hold this until the next "new feature" release rather than
>> apply right now [1].
> Sigh, sometimes I feel sooo tired ...
>
> The only "new feature" inside of this patch is not bundling a copy of
> libintl. Everything else is importing the ca. 4-5 years in development
> gettext has seen since the version currently being used in apt-rpm.
>
> If you think ignoring these 4-5 years of progress is the appropriate
> approach, I beg to differ: I feel it's a fault.

Jump of 4-5 years is a big change, that's why I'm a bit wary about it.
However, having slept over it, claiming we're currently in somehow stable 
state would be ridiculous really.

So applied, afterall. Just to restate that this isn't in my opinion not 
just a bugfix because it would affect (the hypotetical) people relying on 
the internal intl requiring them to change things, so if this was an 
actual stable branch we'd be talking about, change of this magnitude 
wouldn't be acceptable IMO.

 	- Panu -