I installed my development environment on a different machine but for some reason didn't install intltool. But it took me a while to notice since I normally routinely divert the output to a file. So it was crashing but I didn't know. But when I examined setup.py I saw that was tested for, at least it was supposed to be tested for. But on my particular machine when the test was piped into more commands the whole piped command was returning a zero status, even though there was no intltool at all. So I have added an explicit test for intltool and that does indeed fail on my machine, without one.
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