Re: [PATCH] [OE-core] [PATCH] gettext: upgrade 0.21.1 -> 0.22

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2023-06-27 at 15:17 +0800, wangmy wrote:
> From: Wang Mingyu <wangmy@fujitsu.com>
> 
> Changelog:
> ===========
> * PO file format:
>   - When a #: line contains references to file names that contain spaces,
>     these file names are surrounded by Unicode characters U+2068 and U+2069.
>     This makes it possible to parse such references correctly.
> 
> * Improvements for maintainers:
>   - The AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro now defines two variables localedir_c and
>     localedir_c_make, that can be used in C code or in Makefiles,
>     respectively, for representing the value of the --localedir configure
>     option.
> 
> * Programming languages support:
>   - C, C++:
>     o xgettext now supports gettext-like functions that take wide strings
>       (of type 'const wchar_t *', 'const char16_t *', or 'const char32_t *')
>       as arguments.
>     o xgettext now recognizes numbers with digit separators, as defined by
>       ISO C 23, as tokens.
>     o xgettext and msgfmt now recognize the format string directive %b
>       (for binary integer output, as defined by ISO C 23) in format strings.
>     o xgettext and msgfmt now recognize the argument size specifiers
>       w8, w16, w32, w64, wf8, wf16, wf32, wf64 (as defined by ISO C 23)
>       in format strings.
>     o xgettext and msgfmt now recognize C++ format strings, as defined by
>       ISO C++ 20.  They are marked as 'c++-format' in POT and PO files.
>       A new example has been added, 'hello-c++20', that illustrates how
>       to use these format strings with gettext.
>   - Java:
>     o The build system and tools now also support Java versions newer than
>       Java 11. This is known to work up to Java 20, at least. On the other
>       hand, support for old versions of Java (Java 1.5 and GCJ) has been
>       dropped.
>   - Tcl: xgettext now supports the \x, \u, and \U escapes as defined in
>     Tcl 8.6.
> 
> * Portability:
>   - On systems with musl libc, the *gettext() functions in libc now work
>     with MO files generated from PO files with an encoding other than UTF-8.
>     To this effect, the msgfmt program now converts the messages to UTF-8
>     encoding before storing them in a MO file.  You can prevent this by
>     using the msgfmt --no-convert option.
>   - On systems with musl libc, the *gettext() functions in libc now work
>     with MO files generated from PO files with ISO C 99 <inttypes.h> format
>     string directive macros.  To this effect, the msgfmt program pre-expands
>     strings with such macros.  You can prevent this by using the msgfmt
>     --no-redundancy option.
> 
> * xgettext:
>   - The xgettext option '--sorted-output' is now deprecated.
>   - xgettext input files of type PO that are not all ASCII and not UTF-8
>     encoded are now handled correctly.
> 
> * The base Unicode standard is now updated to 15.0.0.
> 
> * Emacs PO mode:
>   Fix an incompatibility with Emacs version 29 or newer.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Mingyu <wangmy@fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  .../0001-init-env.in-do-not-add-C-CXX-parameters.patch          | 0
>  .../0001-tests-autopoint-3-unset-MAKEFLAGS.patch                | 0
>  .../gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/parallel.patch     | 0
>  .../gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/run-ptest          | 0
>  .../{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/serial-tests-config.patch  | 0
>  .../{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/use-pkgconfig.patch        | 0
>  .../{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/COPYING    | 0
>  .../Makefile.in.in                                              | 0
>  .../aclocal/gettext.m4                                          | 0
>  .../aclocal/host-cpu-c-abi.m4                                   | 0
>  .../aclocal/iconv.m4                                            | 0
>  .../aclocal/intlmacosx.m4                                       | 0
>  .../aclocal/lib-ld.m4                                           | 0
>  .../aclocal/lib-link.m4                                         | 0
>  .../aclocal/lib-prefix.m4                                       | 0
>  .../aclocal/nls.m4                                              | 0
>  .../aclocal/po.m4                                               | 0
>  .../aclocal/progtest.m4                                         | 0
>  .../config.rpath                                                | 0
>  .../remove-potcdate.sin                                         | 0
>  ...-minimal-native_0.21.1.bb => gettext-minimal-native_0.22.bb} | 0
>  .../recipes-core/gettext/{gettext_0.21.1.bb => gettext_0.22.bb} | 2 +-
>  22 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/0001-init-env.in-do-not-add-C-CXX-parameters.patch (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/0001-tests-autopoint-3-unset-MAKEFLAGS.patch (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/parallel.patch (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/run-ptest (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/serial-tests-config.patch (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-0.21.1 => gettext-0.22}/use-pkgconfig.patch (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/COPYING (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/Makefile.in.in (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/gettext.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/host-cpu-c-abi.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/iconv.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/intlmacosx.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/lib-ld.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/lib-link.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/nls.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/po.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/aclocal/progtest.m4 (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/config.rpath (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-0.21.1 => gettext-minimal-0.22}/remove-potcdate.sin (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext-minimal-native_0.21.1.bb => gettext-minimal-native_0.22.bb} (100%)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/gettext/{gettext_0.21.1.bb => gettext_0.22.bb} (99%)

When you upgraded this recipe did you check if there were changes to
any of the files in gettext-minimal in the new version? I'm a little
surprised none of the files change at all...

Cheers,

Richard