During a rebuild of all packages in the archive using a preliminary
version of gettext 0.26, at least 32 packages failed to build.

The build logs are in the "build-logs" directory,
and a dd-list is available in the file "dd-list.txt".

Source and prebuilt packages for amd64 and arm64 for
this preliminary gettext 0.26 are available using this
file as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gettext.sources

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/gettext/debian
Suites: unreleased
Components: main
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp

(provided the debian-keyring package is installed)

The packaging itself is still here as a work in progress:

https://salsa.debian.org/sanvila/gettext-tmp


The archive rebuild was done using a modified autoconf incorporating
patches from Bruno Haible so that it's more gettext-friendly.

Without those autoconf patches, around 50 more packages
would also fail to build. Details about that here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2025-06/msg00009.html

where the author also split the build logs I provided into different
failure categories.

Note: The modified autoconf is also temporarily provided in the
package repository at people.debian.org above. The new gettext
packages and the modified autoconf should be used together.


I want this transition to be as smooth as possible, so I expect the following things
to happen before I can upload gettext 0.26 for unstable:

- Report the failing packages as severity:normal with a reference to this page
- If possible, provide patches for all packages

- Wait until we have fixes for all packages
- Wait until a new autoconf is released with the required patches

- Upload gettext for experimental
- Raise bugs to important
- Wait until only a few packages are unfixed

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Known problems:

gettext 0.26 FTBFS with glibc 2.43 currently in experimental

I have yet to see if gettext 1.0 fixes this or not.

Alternatively, it would be possible to switch to 0.26.1 if they
make a point release fixing the glibc issues.
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