Re: Bug#196648: gettext: duplicate line in macro causes gettext to fail utterly (fwd)

[Luke Schierer]

LukeSpace:/home/lschiere/Documents# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "testing";

LukeSpace:/home/lschiere/Documents# apt-get install gettext -t unstable 
--reinstall
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 168 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1330kB of archives.
After unpacking 3235kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 80847 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gettext 0.10.40-8 (using 
.../gettext_0.12.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gettext ...
Setting up gettext (0.12.1-1) ...

LukeSpace:/home/lschiere/Documents# gettext --version
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.12.1
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is 
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
LukeSpace:/home/lschiere/Documents#

so it seems gettext is at version 0.12.1 is installed and in use, and it 
works on this box, and the apt.conf file should be ensuring i am using 
testing here, it has in the past...
luke

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:08:59PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Luke Schierer wrote:
> 
> > i cannot duplicate this on my debian testing box which also seems
> > to have gettext 0.12.1, [...]
> 
> No, gettext 0.12.1 has not propagated to testing yet. testing still
> has gettext 0.10.40.
> 
> You could try to install gettext 0.12.1 under testing and see what happens.