Re: gettext later than 0.17?

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I notice the package 'gettext_0_17' exists and is (unsuprisingly)
>> gettext 0.17.  Is there a gettext_0_18 or even better gettext_0_18_1
>> package?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Is there any reason many packages depend on gettext_0_17 and not a
>> more recent version of gettext?
>
> In November 2010, Rob changed several Gnulib-using packages to
> explicitly depend on 0.17 instead of 0.18.  ISTR that Gnulib required
> the older version back then.

Hi Ludo!  I don't think that is the case any more.  DEPENDENCIES says:

* GNU gettext 0.16.1.

but I think that should be 'or newer', will ask on bug-gnulib...

> Anyway, which packages do you want to switch to 0.18?

Libidn and gsasl.  They have a AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1]) in them
now, so they don't build any more.  The reason is to solve some
portability problems -- it turned out that using
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17]) made gettextize pull in *.m4 files from
the 0.17 era rather than the latest version (through its CVS/git archive
of older files).

/Simon