bug#41301: Django 3 dependency: gettext

[Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>]

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I just saw that lint said it was out of date.  I'm doing this to track down
a dep tree to order my work in packaging and to become more familiar with
packaging.

On Sat, May 16, 2020, 09:04 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The following needs to be updated: gettext
>
> Why does it need to be updated?  gettext 0.20.2 was released just a
> month ago[0], and Django runs on a wide range of distributions that
> surely has older versions.
>
> Updating gettext is also a full-rebuild change which means this will
> have to wait for the next "core-updates" branch.
>
> Note that if you really need the newer gettext, you can give Django a
> special variant like so without having to wait for core-updates:
>
> (define-public gettext-0.20.2
>   (package
>     (inherit gettext)
>     (version "0.20.2")
>     (source (origin ...))))
>
> 0: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9716
>

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