On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:51:36PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: gettext > Version: 0.19.8.1-3 > Severity: serious > Justification: glibc ftbfs > User: helm...@debian.org > Usertags: rebootstrap > > The removal of POT-Creation-Date (#792687) is a nice thing to do, but > the archive isn't quite ready for it. > > * glibc FTBFS https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21508 and > no patch is available as of this writing.
In fact, breaking other packages is hardly a good reason to revert the change. Consider the example of GCC 7. There are lots of packages that FTBFS because of new GCC 7, and I'm sure that a lot of them without patches as well, but this was never a reason not to upload GCC 7 for unstable or to revert the fact that we made GCC 7 the default gcc. We never said "the archive is not ready for it" for GCC 7, why this small change in gettext should be different? Please reassign and merge when you report the bug against glibc. This is not a bug in gettext, it's a bug in glibc at most. Thanks.
