On Sat, Jun 06, 2026 at 12:57:34PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > --- a/configure.ac > > +++ b/configure.ac > > @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ AS_IF([test "x$with_ssl" != xno], [ > > > > # Add Gettext > > AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) > > -AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.11.1]) > > +AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.23]) > >... > > There is a major difference between what Debian wants and what > autopoint does. > > "autopoint --force" does *not* copy the gettext files from the latest > gettext version, it copies the files from the exact gettext version > in AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION. > > E.g. AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.11.4]) also fixes the build since that's > when AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION was added to gettext.m4, but the package > will be built with the gettext files from 0.11.4 (released in 2002). > > This happened to work with older gettext versions where the gettext > m4 macros were shipped in the global search path. > > Omitting AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION works, but uses the files from 0.23.1 > (not the current version 0.26). > > The first question is whether this behaviour is wanted in Debian, > or whether Debian package builds should use the latest version.
For the proposed patch, I decided to update the version a little bit, after checking that it works, while still allowing builds in trixie. That's all. No, there is no need to use the latest version. Lots of upstream packages have a version in AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION which is a lot older than our stable distribution and they work fine. I'm only proposing a small update when we are updating configure.ac, as I believe that's also what an upstream author would do if they had to update configure.ac. If you want to propose something different, feel free, I never claimed my patches were the only way to fix the problem. Thanks.
