Hi, I think it's better to do something (i.e. apply the patch) instead of leaving intltool broken. I know that it had been patched in Fedora, and there weren't any issues with that.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318674 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/intltool.git/commit/?id=6c129f09a92cbfed0d449cfb30882ed7cad0aa9b
