On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:18:04AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > From: Santiago Vila <[email protected]> > That does not make much sense. autopoint is a tool to copy or update > standard gettext infrastructure files into a source package. If your > sources are "recent enough" that you don't have to update anything, > then you just don't need autopoint at all to begin with. > > In either case, we can't relax the dependency, because several packages > have autopoint in their build-depends, and autopoint uses git > internally, so it HAS to work when invoked, no matter what.
Hi Santiago, Thanks for your quick response. When I look inside the autopoint script, I find that there are 3 options for working with the autopoint archive. Historically, autopoint used to use cvs, but it looks like it has switched to git. But there is a 'dir' option as well, with the only drawback of using about 6 times more space, according to the comments in the script. When cvs was the dependency, this wasn't a problem. Not too many people would install their own copies of cvs on their system. But git is new enough, and still in development, and I think it is more likely that people will have their own copies of git installed. I find it unfortunate that something as basic as autopoint depends on git (or cvs for that matter), but I can understand the reason. And upon a second look, the fix is not as simple as I first thought. But switching to 'dir' would indeed fix the problem, and make autopoint standalone. Is this a reasonable option, or am I missing another factor? Thanks, - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
