[Tracker] bumping the dependency on intltool to >= 0.40 (and why that will be necessary)

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

since version 0.40.0 of intltool, intltoolize will no longer install the files
        intltool-extract.in
        intltool-merge.in
        intltool-update.in

I.e. the Makefile.am we currently have will no longer be valid and if
you run ./autogen.sh && make distcheck on a fresh svn checkout, it
will fail with intltool >= 0.40.


I find this situation very unfortunate, as this doesn't allow us to
use newer versions of intltool without breakage. There is a bug files
upstream [1], where I outlined the problem.
It seems intltool doesn't agree, that it would have been a sane idea
to provide a more smooth upgrade path.

The only way I see, is to remove
EXTRA_DIST = \
        intltool-extract.in                     \
        intltool-merge.in                       \
        intltool-update.in

from Makefile.am and bump the dependency on intlttool to >= 0.40.0 in
configure.ac:
IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.40.0])

Latest Fedora and Ubuntu ship recent intltool version, Lenny, the next
Debian release, will too and so does the soon to be released new
openSUSE.

As this only affects developers and users building from SVN, I'd like
to ask, if this change would be ok or not.

What do you guys think?

Cheers,
Michael


[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537352
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