[systemd-devel] systemd and intltool

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> reading https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration, it says
> that intltool is practically dead and one should use gettext directly.
>
> Do we still need intltool in systemd? Does gettext have support for
> translating PolicyKit policy files?

I'm a fan of the suggestion to remove intltool!

Not sure if the page you link too really indicates intltool itself is
obsolete, I think what they meant is that it's obsolete for GNOME
projects...

When I looked at it last, I opened a bug in systemd tracker to remove
intltool dependency:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79692

And they suggested opening a bug to request native PolicyKit support in gettext:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?42615

But I'm not really sure that went anywhere...

At the hackfest of LPC '14 I heard of the plans to replace PolicyKit
with another component (not really based on XML), so I was hoping this
would end up solving this problem, not sure whether those plans still
exist, what is the progress and whether we could help there? Or should
we look again at alternative approaches to removing the intltool
dependency?

Cheers!
Filipe