diff -Nru bluefish-2.2.6/debian/changelog bluefish-2.2.6/debian/changelog
--- bluefish-2.2.6/debian/changelog	2014-05-10 21:13:42.000000000 +0000
+++ bluefish-2.2.6/debian/changelog	2014-11-15 16:58:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+bluefish (2.2.6-1+rpi1) jessie-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  * change GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION to 0.19 to fix FTBFS with new gettext
+    patch taken from post to 
+    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759935
+    by Brahadambal Srinivasan
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:58:31 +0000
+
 bluefish (2.2.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.
diff -Nru bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/gettext.patch bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/gettext.patch
--- bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/gettext.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/gettext.patch	2014-11-15 16:57:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+Taken from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759935
+The patch was originally called bluefish-ppc64le.patch but it's not actually
+ppc64el specific.
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_about/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_about/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_charmap/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_charmap/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_entities/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_entities/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_htmlbar/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_htmlbar/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_infbrowser/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_infbrowser/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_snippets/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_snippets/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
+--- bluefish-2.2.6.orig/src/plugin_zencoding/po/Makefile.in.in
++++ bluefish-2.2.6/src/plugin_zencoding/po/Makefile.in.in
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ # General Public License and is *not* in the public domain.
+ #
+ # Origin: gettext-0.18
+-GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.18
++GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION = 0.19
+ 
+ PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
+ VERSION = @VERSION@
diff -Nru bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/series bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/series
--- bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/series	2013-05-09 12:31:02.000000000 +0000
+++ bluefish-2.2.6/debian/patches/series	2014-11-15 16:55:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gettext.patch