On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 05:32:46PM -0400, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: commit 31d82a2be4506259512ee4ed075eadb76750139f Author: Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> Date: Sat Sep 5 17:24:17 2020 +0200 added appstream as a build requirement appstream provides the metainfo.its file which is required for xgettext to extract the translation strings of the src/ui/gui/org.fsf.pspp.metainfo.xml.in file The metainfo.its file is located in /usr/share/gettext/its on debian and on opensuse. It is provided by the packages debian: appstream opensuse: AppStream-devel
The test in configure.ac is ineffective at detecting metainfo.its, if the installed xgettext is the unpatched version of 0.19.8.1 - it always reports that appstream 0.12 is not installed. Thus the purpose is defeated.