Andrew Cooper writes ("[PATCH 1/2] tools: Drop gettext as a build dependency"):
> It has not been a dependency since at least 4.13. Remove its mandatory check
> from ./configure.
>
> Annotate the dependency in the CI dockerfiles which are used for 4.14 or
> older. Drop the dependency from Alpine and Ubuntu Focal which are new
> containers in 4.15, as well as dropping from CirrusCI and TravisCI.
Thank you but I'm afraid I think that this is not an important bugfix
for 4.15. So I am withholding my release ack for this patch.
Feel free to explain to me why this is the wrong decision.
Thanks,
Ian.
