Re: utimens-tests -> gettext deps

[Daiki Ueno]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> How about if we mark the gettext module as obsolescent? We can then
> work to fix those other two modules to not rely on the gettext module
> (they can still use gettext, just via gettext's mechanisms rather than
> via gnulib).
>
> We'd keep the gettext-h module.

It sounds like a good idea.  I've done that with the attached patch.

Thanks,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

>From 4cfc2d2d0b24e91299682baf0bb437088d185326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daiki Ueno <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:07:33 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] gettext: mark as obsolete

Suggested by Paul Eggert in:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00101.html
* modules/gettext (Status): Mark as obsolete.
(Notice): Suggest to use 'gettext-h' instead.
* modules/gettext-h (Description): Suggest GNU gettext, instead of
the 'gettext' module.
---
 ChangeLog         | 10 ++++++++++
 modules/gettext   |  7 ++++++-
 modules/gettext-h |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d27b8a..4dce1ff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2016-01-25  Daiki Ueno  <address@hidden>
+
+       gettext: mark as obsolete
+       Suggested by Paul Eggert in:
+       https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00101.html
+       * modules/gettext (Status): Mark as obsolete.
+       (Notice): Suggest to use 'gettext-h' instead.
+       * modules/gettext-h (Description): Suggest GNU gettext, instead of
+       the 'gettext' module.
+
 2016-01-24  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
 
        gnulib-tool: don't give up on ln -s so easily
diff --git a/modules/gettext b/modules/gettext
index a9ceed7..8c94e2d 100644
--- a/modules/gettext
+++ b/modules/gettext
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 Description:
 Translate messages to user's native language.
 
+Status:
+obsolete
+
 Notice:
-You must add an invocation of AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) to configure.ac.
+This module is obsolete. Use the module 'gettext-h' instead to make
+your program capable of internationalization, when GNU gettext is also
+used.
 
 Files:
 m4/codeset.m4
diff --git a/modules/gettext-h b/modules/gettext-h
index 2d6c2cd..72bdcb2 100644
--- a/modules/gettext-h
+++ b/modules/gettext-h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Description:
-Translate messages to user's native language if the gettext module is also 
used.
+Translate messages to user's native language if GNU gettext is also used.
 
 Files:
 lib/gettext.h
-- 
2.5.0