Work I'm doing on Autoconf is now also blocked by the out-of-date
gettext in Debian, for reasons too tedious to get into, so I've
prepared experimental packages of gettext 0.21. Get them from
https://research.owlfolio.org/scratchpad/debian -- this URL should
work as an apt source line, but beware that experimental packages of
the recent upstream beta of autoconf are also present.
I addressed a number of outstanding bugs and lintian complaints while
I was at it (the full changelog is at the bottom of this message, for
your interest); most importantly, I removed the dependency on libcroco
(bug #967028). I did *not* change the set of binary packages at all,
because it wasn't clear to me what changes should be made. Nor did I
revise the copyright file beyond updating the copyright years. (I did
run scan-copyrights, the result of which is in
debian/copyright.dep5.raw, but it would clearly need a great deal of
manual revision and I don't have time for that any more than Santiago
does. I've already spent two full days on this.)
I hope this is useful to at least some of you. I don't plan to do any
further work on gettext myself, but please feel free to take what I
have done and build on it.
zw
gettext (0.21-0.1) experimental; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer upload to experimental.
* New upstream version 0.21 released July 2020.
- xgettext can detect ‘(eval_)gettext -e’ in shell scripts. Closes: #507091.
- <gettext.h> compiles cleanly as C++. Closes: #547798.
- The unpacked usr/share/gettext/intl is no longer installed.
If you were using these files, find them in
/usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz, which is part of the
autopoint package.
- New upstream signing key added to signing-key.asc:
"Bruno Haible (Open Source Development) <br...@clisp.org>"
9001 B85A F9E1 B83D F1BD A942 F5BE 8B26 7C6A 406D
* Patches that are no longer necessary:
- 01-do-not-use-java-in-urlget.patch: Replaced with logic in debian/rules.
- 02-msgfmt-remove-pot-creation-date.patch: Merged upstream.
- 03-avoid-extraneous-nul-bytes.patch: Merged upstream.
- 04-fix-msgunfmt-heap-corruption.patch: Merged upstream.
- 05-fix-crash-xgettext-with-its.patch: Merged upstream.
- 06-java9-support.patch: Merged upstream.
- 07-java11-support.patch: Merged upstream.
- 08-java-future-support.patch: Merged upstream.
- 09-fix-crash-with-po-file-input.patch: Merged upstream.
* New patches:
- NF-use-system-help2man.patch: Use system help2man instead of
embedded help2man. Closes: #949338.
- NF-library-dependencies.patch: Link all libraries and
executables against all of their dependencies, correctly.
(Latent upstream bug, exposed by hardening.)
- NF-disable-libtextstyle.patch: Do not build libtextstyle.
We never packaged it, and it depends on libcroco, which is
unmaintained and has known security bugs. Use the Gnulib
libtextstyle-dummy module (already included in the upstream
sources) to satisfy various programs’ use of libtextstyle.
Note that this means those programs’ --color options
silently do nothing. Closes: #967028.
* Debhelper compat level 13 (current recommended).
- Switch to dh sequencing.
- Switch to Build-Depends: debhelper-compat.
- Switch to declarative package contents, using dh_install etc.
dh-exec is needed for build profile filtering in a few places.
(The old scripting is preserved in debian/rules.old.)
- Manual ldconfig triggers are no longer necessary.
- The HTML documentation and examples are now installed in
/usr/share/doc/gettext instead of .../gettext-doc.
* gettext-el is now created using dh_elpa, eliminating the need for
custom package scripts.
* Standards-Version: 4.5.0.
- All lintian E-level diagnostics have been addressed, and
many but not all of the W- and I-level diagnostics.
- I don’t *think* any specific changes were required besides the
above, but I could have missed something.
