Re: gettext: Update to gettext 0.22

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > This patch updates the (obsolete?) 'gettext' module to match
> > gettext version 0.22.
> 
> Is it time to remove the gettext module? It's obsolete. Offhand all the 
> packages I know that formerly used it, have migrated to gettext-h.

I see at least 2 ½ reasons to keep it in gnulib:

  * It has the effect that gnulib testdirs (such as the testdir-all that
    I often use, cf. the 'all-modules' script) will include i18n support
    and thus expose possible link errors on non-glibc platforms. It's
    good to detect such link errors from within gnulib and fix them by
    adding $(LIBINTL) to a something_LDFLAGS variable, rather than wait
    that packages (coreutils, gettext, etc.) report these after they
    have made a release with an FTBFS.

  * There's still at least 1 package which uses this module in their
    bootstrap.conf [1].

  * It can serve as a prototype if/when we someday unify gnulib-tool,
    libtoolize, and gettextize in a single tool.

Bruno

[1] 
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=gettext+path%3Abootstrap.conf&literal=1&perpkg=1&page=1