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    Migrate build from intltool to gettext translation (!107) · ddd32e83
    Mike Fleetwood authored and Curtis Gedak's avatar Curtis Gedak committed
    [0] GNOME Goal: Gettext Migration
        https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/GettextMigration
    
    This goal from 2016 is to migrate away from using intltool to help
    translate especially GNOME application related files, and instead use
    gettext directly now that gettext can handle a lot more file formats
    [1][2][3].
    
    The GNOME Goal: Gettext Migration [0] says:
        "With gettext 0.19.8, there is really no need anymore to use
        intltool or GLib's dated gettext glue (AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT and
        glib-gettextize)."
    
    This version or later of gettext is available in the oldest supported
    distributions except for SLES 12:
        Distribution       EOL        gettext -V
        Debian 10          2022-Aug   0.19.8.1
        RHEL / CentOS 7    2024-Jun   0.19.8.1
        Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   2023-Apr   0.19.8.1
        SLES 12 SP5        2024-Oct   0.19.2 [4][5]
    As SLES 12 SP5 doesn't contain GParted and SLES 15 contains GParted
    0.31.0 [6] loosing the ability to compile future...
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