Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools: Drop gettext as a build dependency

[Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Cooper writes ("[PATCH 1/2] tools: Drop gettext as a build dependency"):
> It has not been a dependency since at least 4.13.  Remove its mandatory check
> from ./configure.
> 
> Annotate the dependency in the CI dockerfiles which are used for 4.14 or
> older.  Drop the dependency from Alpine and Ubuntu Focal which are new
> containers in 4.15, as well as dropping from CirrusCI and TravisCI.

Thank you but I'm afraid I think that this is not an important bugfix
for 4.15.  So I am withholding my release ack for this patch.

Feel free to explain to me why this is the wrong decision.

Thanks,
Ian.