Re: [Pspp-commits] [SCM] GNU PSPP branch, master, updated. v1.4.0-87-g31d82a2

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 05:32:46PM -0400, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     commit 31d82a2be4506259512ee4ed075eadb76750139f
     Author: Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de>
     Date:   Sat Sep 5 17:24:17 2020 +0200
     
         added appstream as a build requirement
         
         appstream provides the metainfo.its file which is required for
         xgettext to extract the translation strings of the
         src/ui/gui/org.fsf.pspp.metainfo.xml.in file
         
         The metainfo.its file is located in /usr/share/gettext/its on
         debian and on opensuse. It is provided by the packages
         
         debian:     appstream
         opensuse:   AppStream-devel

The test in  configure.ac is ineffective at detecting metainfo.its, if the 
installed
xgettext is the unpatched version of 0.19.8.1   -   it always reports that 
appstream 0.12 is
not installed.

Thus the purpose is defeated.