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regarding gettext: Please support setting COPYRIGHT_HOLDER from an autoconf
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Hello.
I received this from the Debian bug system:
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From: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
To: sub...@bugs.debian.org
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:14:40 +0200
Subject: Bug#764483: gettext: Please support setting COPYRIGHT_HOLDER from an
autoconf variable
Source: gettext
Source-Version: gettext
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
For dpkg, which uses muliple po directories, I'd like to be able to
set the COPYRIGHT_HOLDER variable centrally, instead of having to set
it on each po/Makevars file, and possibly having to keep it in sync.
It would be nice if gettext supported setting it from an autoconf
variable (with AC_SUBST), in the same way MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS falls
back to use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT when MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS is empty.
This might require setting something like:
PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER = @PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER@
in Makefile.in.in, and making the code fallback to use that if
COPYRIGHT_HOLDER is not set.
For an example of how I'm using it now with po4a (which uses a
Makefile.am instead):
<https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/configure.ac#n7>
<https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/man/Makefile.am#n76>
(Hmm, it just occurred to me I could rename all Makevars to
Makevars.in and add them to the configure.ac AC_CONFIG_FILES, but
I'd rather have a proper variable for this if possible?)
Thanks,
Guillem
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