[PATCH v4] i18n: deprecate intltool and use only gettext 0.19.8

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-09-03 at 22:23 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
>> Instead of mixing both intltool and gettext, which not always work
>> correctly together, this patch obsoletes intltool and uses only
>> gettext, which includes support for translating XML files with ITS
>> rules.
>>
>> See migration steps for GNOME projects here:
>>   https://wiki.gnome.org/MigratingFromIntltoolToGettext
>
> LGTM; I was a bit concerned about the gettext version bump, but 0.19.8
> was released in early June 2016 so I think that's OK.  Seems like most
> recent distros have updated to it.
>
> Though I don't think Ubunbu 16.04 has it?  Do we require 0.19.8 or will
> 0.19.7 be OK (which Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 does have...)?
>

0.19.8 is required for the ITS based translations of the policy XML files, yes.

Given that we're targeting this change only for git master (future
1.8) I really don't think Ubuntu 16.04 should be a concern; they're
using 1.4.12 there, not even a 1.6.x stable release.

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Aleksander
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