Re: po/LINGUAS fallout

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 16:17 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Since the move to po/LINGUAS, many GNOME 2.15 distfiles do not install
> > translation files.  Some don't even include the files in the dist
> > tarball.  The problem seems to stem from use of intltool-0.34.2 instead
> > of 0.34.90.  The three most recent offenders are totem-1.5.0,
> > sound-juicer-2.15.2, and gnome-terminal-2.15.0.  Is there anything that
> > can be done to automatically check these distfiles, and send email to
> > the maintainers?
>
> I'll blame intltool. I have this line in my configure.in:
> IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.34.90])
>
> And I have this version of intltool installed:
> intltool-0.34.1-1.1
>
> I guess its auto-fu macros suck.

The intltool.m4 shipped with those versions of intltool only
checks the two first components of the version number :(.  This
has already been fixed in HEAD.


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