Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-6 Severity: important Tags: l10n msgfmt produces binary files which vary dependent on the endianness of the system you build on.
As localization files are supposed to be placed in /usr/share/ this means that packages with localized strings fail the requirement of multiarch of all shared files being identical across architectures. For example, bug #670023. There is a workaround: split such packages in two, with a binary package and a localization package. This, I've been told by the FTP team is not a desirable action. The better way out of this (and the one preferred by the FTP team) is for msgfmt always to produce .mo files of the same endianness, regardless of the platform it's run on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
