Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable using gettext 1.0
(yet to be uploaded for Debian), this package failed to build.

Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/gettext/build-logs/

I've written this page to explain how to reproduce the problem:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/gettext/

This bug will be raised to important once gettext is uploaded for
experimental, and RC once gettext is uploaded for unstable.


About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:p11-kit, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.
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[...]
 debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_clean
 debian/rules binary
dh binary
   dh_update_autotools_config
   dh_autoreconf
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
autopoint: *** found more than one invocation of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION
autopoint: *** Stop.
autoreconf: error: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i -v returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:28: binary] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[...]
[...]

The triggering code in p11-kit is

AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.8])
m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION([0.19.8])
])


i.e. autopoint throws an error about duplicate
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION but it seems to be a false alarm.

This can be probanly worked around excatly like gnutls did in
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/38e5fb6613666df96cc5851ab32d4db1313ffd02
with quoting:
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19])
-m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[
+m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GET][TEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[

but isn't this an autopoint bug?

cu Andreas

I don't know, but I'll ask upstream.

Thanks.

Hello.

I found four packages in Debian which fail to build with gettext 1.0,
the bugs are available here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org;tag=gettext-1.0

After filing those bugs, I received the reply below from Andreas Metzler,
maintainer of p11-kit, one of the affected packages.

So: Is this a bug in p11-kit or a bug in gettext?

Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> -----

Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 14:09:14 +0200
[...]
[...]

The triggering code in p11-kit is

AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.8])
m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION([0.19.8])
])


i.e. autopoint throws an error about duplicate
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION but it seems to be a false alarm.

This can be probanly worked around excatly like gnutls did in
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/38e5fb6613666df96cc5851ab32d4db1313ffd02
with quoting:
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19])
-m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[
+m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GET][TEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[

but isn't this an autopoint bug?

cu Andreas

----- End forwarded message -----

Hello.

I found four packages in Debian which fail to build with gettext 1.0,
the bugs are available here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org;tag=gettext-1.0

After filing those bugs, I received the reply below from Andreas Metzler,
maintainer of p11-kit, one of the affected packages.

So: Is this a bug in p11-kit or a bug in gettext?

Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> -----

Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 14:09:14 +0200
[...]
[...]

The triggering code in p11-kit is

AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.8])
m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION([0.19.8])
])


i.e. autopoint throws an error about duplicate
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION but it seems to be a false alarm.

This can be probanly worked around excatly like gnutls did in
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/38e5fb6613666df96cc5851ab32d4db1313ffd02
with quoting:
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19])
-m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[
+m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GET][TEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION],[

but isn't this an autopoint bug?

cu Andreas

----- End forwarded message -----

Hello Santiago,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2025-09/msg00000.html

Alternatively, you can make the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION
macro invocation unconditional. This macro was introduced in
gettext 0.19.6, in 2015. All distros nowadays, that are meant to
be used for development, ship this version or newer.
https://repology.org/project/gettext/versions

In other words, the m4_ifdef invocation was a protection against
gettext versions < 0.19.6, which are virtually nonexistent nowadays.

No. The autopoint documentation states that it recognizes
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION invocations with parentheses. Here
it still looks like an invocation despite the missing parentheses,
because in m4 the argument list is always optional.

autopoint does not (and will not) recognize m4_ifdef invocations;
this would be too much effort.

Bruno

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
p11-kit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1137421@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated p11-kit package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:23:09 +0200
Source: p11-kit
Architecture: source
Version: 0.26.2-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GnuTLS Maintainers <pkg-gnutls-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Closes: 1137421
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