Re: Problem with intltool 0.40.0?

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> 2008/7/22 David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>:
>> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:14 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>>> > Options:
>>> >
>>> > o Rename intltool to intltool2, allow parallel install with intltool 1
>>> > o Add backwards compatibility support
>>> > o Don't screw with minor build system things right now, and wait a year
>>> >   or so until waf is widely deployed, then switch wholesale and gain
>>> >   useful improvements instead of plugging a one small leak in the
>>> >   sinking shell script mess of auto*
>>>
>>> Can the release team please advise on this? (for example mandate that
>>> we're using intltool < 0.40 for 2.24). FWIW, the thread starts here
>>>
>>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-July/msg00011.html
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> It's now been 12 days since I sent this mail and I've received no reply.
>> Is it possible for the release team to advise on how to proceed on
>> dealing with the incident of ABI breakage? Thank you.
>
>
> I had filed a bug in the Debian BTS and also upstream:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484721
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537352
>
> intltool upstream doesn't seem to agree that this is a major annoyance.
> I proposed a more smooth upgrade path in the bug report, but upstream
> is apparently not interested.
>

I've reopened that bug (with a rantier-than-necessary comment), because I think
this is a huge annoyance. It breaks (almost) every single spec gnome package in
Fedora...