This had been reported upstream (and for Ubuntu) at [1].

Out-of-tree builds, including 'make distcheck', are broken with automake >= 1.15.
Because of this, various projects that make use of intltool had to add weird
workarounds, as can be seen at [2] or [3].

Patch for this issue had been submitted at LP bug. Debdiff with the patch is in
the attachment. Please consider applying it in Stretch (Jessie has automake 1.14
so intltool is not affected there).


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1117944
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/po/POTFILES.skip?id=5e0db6aaeb0e88161a0bb76fac5293c4dec22ed1
[3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/po/POTFILES.skip?id=66c3b673e32b7d055349a2a96ca2c2dfbbfc03ba

Thanks for the patch. I think this should really be fixed upstream. If
we apply that downstream it doesn't really help for other upstream projects.
I'm aware that intltool upstream development is basically dead, so we
are in a bad situation currently and I'm not sure what to do about this.

Michael

Hi,

I think it's better to do something (i.e. apply the patch) instead
of leaving intltool broken. I know that it had been patched in Fedora,
and there weren't any issues with that.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318674
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/intltool.git/commit/?id=6c129f09a92cbfed0d449cfb30882ed7cad0aa9b

Hi,

This is now fixed in all supported versions of Ubuntu [1].
Maybe it's time to fix it in Debian too?


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1117944