Bug#373643: IRC discussion on the state of this bug

[Loïc Minier]

15:37 < HE> lool: Ping? What's up with #373643?
15:40 < fatal> vainikka: I've done some more googling.... try installing "schedutils" and look at the taskset program.
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15:43 < lool> HE: that's not a trivial nut to crack
15:44 < vainikka> fatal: ok
15:44 < HE> lool: Right, but it's one of the nuts left for etch :)
15:44 < lool> HE: in short, intltool is made of a m4 macro, support scripts, and a sample Makefile snippet
15:44 < HE> Though I hate that fact, I fear that I have to admit to know that.
15:44 < lool> HE: upstream not only broke compatibility with newer autoconfs because of bad design, they also broke compatibility between the pieces
15:45 < lool> HE: please hang on when I type things :)
15:45 < lool> HE: I was trying to explain the various problems at hand
15:46 < lool> HE: upstream didn't comment on the bug report, I fear breaking things further myself, and I don't want to introduce another round of incompatibilities
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15:47 < HE> lool: So reverting to the older version would work?
15:47 < lool> HE: the best thing which could happen is someone proposing a patch reverting the brokeness of the new upstream, while still adding the new functionility
15:47 < lool> HE: the new intltool has functionalities we need in upstream releases already in Debian
15:48 < lool> I'm not sure that this is visible via build-depends only, it might be something you only discover at aclocal time
15:48 < HE> So we have some packages needing the new release, some software needing the old release, upstream doesn't care and there is no patch, right?
15:48 < lool> I think this is correct yes
15:48 < HE> Ah, well, business as usual then.
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15:49 < lool> I think they hate aclocal macro as many of us do, and are reluctant to fix some mistakes because of this :-/
15:50 < lool> HE: I've tagged + help now
15:50 < HE> Thanks.
15:51 < HE> Could you perhaps just paste what you wrote and attach it to the bug log?

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>