Document future Debian/Ubuntu build time dependency in README (!121)

When preparing the GParted Live 1.6.0 distribution, which is based on
Debian unstable ("sid"), compiling GParted failed like this:
    $ make
    ...
    /usr/bin/msgfmt --desktop --template gparted.desktop.in -d ./po -o gparted.desktop
    chmod +x gparted
    /usr/bin/msgfmt --xml --template org.gnome.gparted.policy.in -d ./po -o org.gnome.gparted.policy
    /usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for org.gnome.gparted.policy.in
    make[3]: *** [Makefile:1060: org.gnome.gparted.policy] Error 1
    make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/gparted/gparted-1.6.0-beta1'
    make[2]: *** [Makefile:618: all-recursive] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/gparted/gparted-1.6.0-beta1'
    make[1]: *** [Makefile:452: all] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/gparted/gparted-1.6.0-beta1'
    dh_auto_build: error: make -j16 returned exit code 2
    make: *** [debian/rules:9: build] Error 25
    dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit
    status 2
    debuild: fatal error at line 1184:
    dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui failed

This was also previously reported in the GParted Forum [1].  Future
Debian 13 ("trixie") and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ("nobel") releases have moved
the needed gettext translation rules for .policy XML files:
    /usr/share/gettext/its/policy.its
    /usr/share/gettext/its/policy.loc
to new package libpolkit-gobject-1-dev not installed by default.
Document this new build time dependency.

Also see commits [2][3] where the equivalent change was needed in the
Alpine Linux and CentOS continuous integration images.

[1] GParted forum / [SOLVED] Unable to build "msgfmt: cannot locate ITS
    rules for org..."
    http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=18136
[2] 57ae8f888b
    Fix .policy file translation failure in Alpine Linux CI image (!107)
[3] 8450d8c605
    Fix .policy file translation failure in CentOS CI image (!107)

Closed !121 - Document future Debian/Ubuntu build time dependency in
              README
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Mike Fleetwood 2024-02-24 22:48:38 +00:00 committed by Curtis Gedak
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@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ b. Building from Source
libglib2.0-dev uuid-dev libparted-dev \
libgtkmm-3.0-dev
Debian 13 and later and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later also require this
dependency installing:
sudo apt install libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
On Fedora, these dependencies may be obtained by running the
following command as root:
dnf install gnome-common yelp-tools glib2-devel gcc-c++ \