Bug#801073: src:libidn: libidn needs gettext 0.19.3 or higher

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015, at 10:25, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Ondřej Surý <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Package: src:libidn
> > Version: 1.32-3
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am backporting some packages and found out that libidn requires
> > gettext 0.19.3 or higher.  Could you please declare this in B-D to
> > help backporters?
> 
> Hi.  Thanks for the report.  Libidn does not really require a modern
> gettext, but I bumped the version to 0.19.3 so that gettextize installs
> the latest m4 files.  I don't think you can tell gettext to use the
> latest M4 files but don't require the latest gettext.  Which gettext
> version do you have?  Maybe we can lower it a bit, it was raised
> arbitrarily and without any real problem prompting it.  We used to
> declare 0.18.3.

I am packaging our DNS servers just for latest Debian stable and latest
Ubuntu LTS, so 0.18.3 would be fine as it is the version in Ubuntu
Trusty.

0.18.1 would be even better as it is the version in Debian wheezy and
Ubuntu Precise, but it's not really needed for my purposes as it would
require to backport far more packages to pull gnutls28 in.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <address@hidden>
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