Santiago Vila writes ("Re: dpkg and I18N"):
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Is i18n support currently enabled or disabled in the stable and
> > > unstable versions of dpkg ? There have been a number of problems with
> > > it, I know - coredumps in some i18n function.
> >
> > Enabled for unstable and disable for stable iirc. glibc2.1 apparently
> > fixed the i8n problems that dpkg had.
>
> As far as I know, there is no need to disable i18n support.
> Just removing --with-included-gettext from the configure command line
> in debian/rules seemed to solve the problem.
Right. So the resulting binary has working i18n ? Then the problem
is just a bug in the gettext supplied with dpkg ?
Ian.
