Package: gettext Version: 0.17-6 Severity: minor Hello Santiago,
While upgrading my little ARM box I noticed that gettext suddenly pulled in libglib and libcroco. I've checked the changelog and I do understand your reasons for making that change (although I don't quite see how CSS manipulation fits in with a --color option). Result on this particular system was that size of gettext was reduced by 160KB, but that aptitude suggested I install ~5.5MB worth of extra libs. I managed to reduce that to ~2MB by not installing libglib2.0-data, but still. gettext for me is a fairly basic command-line package and it has *44* reverse dependencies (including very basic development tools and e.g. kernel-package). Having its dependecies increased by so much for something as trivial as a --color option (which I've personally never used, even if I do use the gettext utils quite a lot) seems like bloat. As I say, I understand the reasons and also see this is really an upstream issue, but I cannot help wondering if any alternatives are possible. Cheers, FJP -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gettext depends on: ii gettext-base 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcroco3 0.6.1-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgomp1 4.3.2-1 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages gettext recommends: ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages gettext suggests: pn cvs <none> (no description available) pn gettext-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
