On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> >> Thanks for the report.  The thing I don't quite understand is, how come
> >> you are the only one to experience this?  My `msgfmt --version' says
> >> "0.10.40", so I'm not sure what your "1.3" refers to.
> >> 
> >> Maybe you should upgrade gettext?
> >
> >  The current version of GNU gettext is 0.11.1, BTW.
> 
> I wonder why the Debian people never upgraded it.  Hmm.

Upgrading gettext to 0.11.x involves a lot of work;
in particular, libintl.so has increased library major
version (API changed? I don't know). So quite many apps
have to be recompiled. Probably nobody dare to take the
task :)

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