This is a proposal to set minimum supported intltool version to 0.35.0 (or higher, like 0.40.0) and stop supporting AC_PROG_INTLTOOL in favour of IT_PROG_INTLTOOL. A warning would get printed by xdt-autogen just like it's printing a warning now for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL vs. LT_INIT. Related link is: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas
Created attachment 4446 Patch to deprecate AC_PROG_INTLTOOL.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=intltool Debian Stable is at 0.41.1 Gentoo Stable is at 0.50.2 ArchLinux is at 0.50.2
Fixed in master. Note that I've moved the check for AC_PROG_INTLTOOL to the top level of xdt-autogen, similar to the check for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL. commit de3d7f023da850ad8fa834c94b999fb80343c1ec Author: Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org> Date: Sun Jul 27 16:46:34 2014 +0200 Display warning if AC_PROG_INTLTOOL is used (bug #8930) Similar to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, which has been replaced with LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT, AC_PROG_INTLTOOL has been replaced with IT_PROG_INTLTOOL. This commit makes xdt-autogen recommend intltool >= 0.35.0 and displays a warning if AC_PROG_INTLTOOL is still being used in a configure script template. Original patch by Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
Closing as this has already been pushed to master and will be included in the next release. Thanks for the patch.
Simon Steinbeiss referenced this bugreport in commit 84424f4a1b9c8c06e4f591cc7b994833d95719d5 Replace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL with IT_PROG_INTLTOOL (Bug #8930) https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-notifyd/commit?id=84424f4a1b9c8c06e4f591cc7b994833d95719d5