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--- Begin Message ---Hello. I received this report from the debian bug system. I'm a little bit puzzled, however. Is this a case of "don't do that, then"? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:21:56 +0100 Subject: Bug#508230: /usr/bin/autopoint: Please make it possible, to use autopoint without cvs Package: gettext Version: 0.17-6 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/autopoint Hi, running "autoreconf" on almost any GNOME project will call autopoint, which in turn calls cvs. I already had a failing build of a package because of that. I read the existing README file and I agree with you, that the gettext package should *not* have a dependency on cvs. Instead I suggest to provide a sane fallback, if cvs is not found, i.e. ship a well tested and up-to-date copy of the files in archive.tar.gz in gettext, and use those files, if cvs is not available. Depending on a internet connection in a buildd is not a good idea anyway. Cheers, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.8 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash 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 2.18.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgomp1 4.3.2-1 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libncurses5 5.7+20081129-1 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages gettext recommends: ii curl 7.18.2-7 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages gettext suggests: ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System pn gettext-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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