Hello. I'm considering to move autopoint, from gettext, to a separate package called "autopoint". By popular demand, but also because it is the "right thing" to do if gettext is not going to depend on cvs.
(Moreover it would be a nice "Architecture: all" package which would remove about 385K of stuff from gettext). Could someone please calculate how many packages currently build-depend on cvs in unstable? (That would be an upper estimation of how many packages would I break in unstable by doing this). Plan A is to do the move and fix all the required packages in unstable, if the release managers do not object. For each affected package, the fix would be quite easy: Whenever packages has cvs in build-depends because they use autopoint, they should use autopoint instead. Plan B would be to create autopoint as an empty package which depends on gettext and cvs. Then we encourage packages to build-depend on autopoint, but without making it a release goal. Then we switch to Plan A when the number of affected packages is small enough. My personal preference would be to follow Plan A and do all the changes before the release of squeeze. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
