On Thu, 23 May 2013, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Source: gettext > Version: 0.18.1.1-10 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > The attached patch adds the ability to bootstrap functional gettext packages, > in the early stages of a system bootstrap where it would be unreasonable to > expect the availability of complex things like Java or git. (As for the > other > build dependencies, they'd also mostly be unavailable -- especially glib2.0 > -- > which would mean the build process uses its internal versions of the > libraries > where possible.)
Thanks. In gettext 0.18.2, which I'll package soon, there is a new option to use xz compression instead of git for autopoint, in which case I believe the proposed patch would not be necessary. Do you agree? (I'll keep this open until then anyway) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
