On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't think that /usr/share/doc/gettext/README.Debian is
>> good enough, no. Espescially since the user is not normally aware
>> that theya re using gettext, which they are not, directly. They just
>> called autoreconf, which is a pretty popular script in autoconf.
>
> Ok, since you talk about the "user", I'm going to think about two
> types of users then:
>
> a) The "normal user" (whatever it means).
> b) The "Debian developer".
>
> For the benefit of a), normal users who have an apt tool which treats
> recommends as depends, I'm willing to switch cvs from suggests to
> recommends.
That would be a good start.
> Debian developers, however, should try building packages in a chroot,
How do you think I found out about this bug?
> in which case they should really read README.Debian and be aware of
> what it says.
I read the README. I felt that documenting a bug makes it no
less a bug. The thing is, we should not assume that only developers and
buildd's build the packages, a free software community member, we
support and encourage other people to tinker with software and build
these packages, and we should try to see that their attempts to
(re)build packages do not fail either.
> The other solution would be to put autopoint in its own package, but
> that's a solution that adds complexity without a gain that compensates
> for the complexity, so I'll still try to avoid it.
Well, a package for a single script does seem a bit much, so I
can see your point. It does not, however, remove the need for any
package that uses autoreconf to build depend on cvs, so this is not
quite satisfactory.
A better solution is to make autopoint not fail hard when it
can't use CVS; perhaps it can use a non-CVS set of text files at run
time, in which case the need for CVS will go away. The CVS tarball can
remain in the sources.
manoj
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