2.1.2 Release delayed

[Chris Lyttle]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>   
>> For the record, I see this on my FC7 system too.  I've added these two
>> files to POTFILES.skip and I'm re-testing.  I'll commit this change if
>> it works for me.  I see no problem with skipping these files.  I don't
>> know why it started complaining, tho.. Maybe a change in the auto
>> tools?
>>     
>
> Just another update..  I decided to fix this by creating POTFILES.ignore
> alongside POTFILES.skip.  The former file is considered "deprecated"
> so intltool-update does complain about it, but it seems to solve the
> problem.  Now "make check" works for me, and "make distcheck" still
> works, too.
>
> I suspect that eventually we can just move to using a single
> POTFILES.skip and remove the top-level Makefile.am checks that compare
> the POTFILES.skip to the dist list...  Maybe.  I need to think about
> that more, as I don't recall EXACTLY why I added that check.  I think
> it was added to make sure we don't accidentally skip a file that we
> distribute.
>
> Unfortunately there's no way (that I can see) to turn off the
> automated "intltool-update -m" command in the newer makefile rules so
> we're going to have to work around it somehow.
>
> -derek
>
>   
BTW Derek, I read the irc log and I have not updated my home system 
since I did the initial 2.1.0 release.

Chris