[vlc-devel] gettext fixed in glibc

[Dominique Leuenberger]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:07:13 +0200
Gilles Sabourin <gilles.sabourin at free.fr> wrote:

> Le Sunday 13 April 2008 16:38:39 Rafaël Carré, vous avez écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > You may remember
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5443 , which is why
> > i18n is disabled on Linux.
> >
> > The bug has been fixed and you can find the patches on:
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2008-q1/msg00318.html
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2008-q1/msg00319.html
> >
> > I'm going to try out the patches and report.
> >
> > I don't know when glibc 2.7.1 or 2.8 will be released so I suggest
> > you to bug your distro package maintainers to include the patch.
>
>
> For openSUSE, Novell told me they won't fix it (backporting 10.2) :
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329650#c1
>
> glibc v2.7-20 comes in openSUSE factory. Maybe glibc will be upgraded
> before openSUSE 11 will be out.
>
> Gilles

For openSUSE, glibc 2.8 is just appearing in Factory. There has already
been an announcement to test applications and to take care, as several
interfaces that were marked as obsolete have finally been removed.

The announcement can be found at:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2008-04/msg00077.html

Dominique