Re: gettext later than 0.17?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Simon,

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I notice the package 'gettext_0_17' exists and is (unsuprisingly)
> gettext 0.17.  Is there a gettext_0_18 or even better gettext_0_18_1
> package?

Yes.

> Is there any reason many packages depend on gettext_0_17 and not a
> more recent version of gettext?

In November 2010, Rob changed several Gnulib-using packages to
explicitly depend on 0.17 instead of 0.18.  ISTR that Gnulib required
the older version back then.

Anyway, which packages do you want to switch to 0.18?

Thanks,
Ludo’.