Re: Gettext version

[Ben Pfaff]

I forgot about that. That's more motivating, then.

I suppose anyone running Debian stable could request a gettext
backport (https://backports.debian.org/).

I won't object if you want to force upgrades. (I only upgraded,
myself, just now.)

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 11:51 AM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> I suppose having waited almost 5 years, then waiting a little longer is
> possible.
>
> It would however keeps some third parties happier.  See
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-dev/2020-08/msg00037.html
>
> J'
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:15:04AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 6:46 AM John Darrington
>      <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>      >
>      > Gettext 0.21 has finally hit Debian testing.
>      >
>      > Any objections if we recent Gettext to 0.20 or later?
>      > This will allow us to remove some of the ugly workarounds which we 
> have.
>
>      I do like getting rid of workarounds, but I'm not sure that these 
> actually
>      burden us now that we have them. Debian stable still has 0.19.mumble.