Doesn't support datarootdir

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

Recent autoconf and automake versions use the --dataroot= option to specify a common root directory for data, manpages, translations, etc.

datadir is now defined simply as $datarootdir

This means that any package developed on Ubuntu edgy with the versions of autoconf/automake included there will fail to work correctly with the version of gettext in edgy because it doesn't include Makefiles that support that.

Copies of po/Makefile.in.in and intl/Makefile.in in the gettext-tools and gettext-runtime directory of the gettext source need updating to include the following line before the definition of datadir...

  datarootdir = @datarootdir@

Also the copies of these files in archive.tar.gz need updating as well, but these files are RCS managed and autopoint checks out an older revision so simply checking in a new one isn't sufficient.

Updating to the version in debian unstable would also fix this.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I've had a go at this, but couldn't get it done cleanly -- Adam fancied some RCS hackery

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Adam's RCS hackery proved to be a bit more effort than seems reasonable, given the number of revisions that need to be hacked. I'd probably end up spending several hours in a text editor for this one, which sounds like a waste of time.

Punting back to Scott to explain to us how autotools will love us forever for doing the upstream bump.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Uploaded gettext 0.15, and confirmed that this fixes the problem