On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:09:20AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: [...] > As opposed to po-debconf in debhelper, I do not consider users of > msginit to be a minority among the users of gettext. The gettext > package is used by programmers (which I think are a minority) and > translators (which I think they are the big group of users). > As msginit is used by translators, I would much prefer a dependency on > "wget | lynx | curl" so that it always work.
As a translator, I never used it and did not even remember of this tool ;) > So here is the current plan: > > * Drop gcj from build depends. > * Keep jikes-classpath in the build depends. > * Include gettext.jar in the gettext package. > * Remove the "first try" from urlget.c. > * Add a dependency on "curl | wget | lynx" to gettext. > (curl is 220Kb large, I think everybody will be happy to use this > instead of libgcj4). > * People who want to develop java applications which use gettext > should do so using a java virtual machine for gettext.jar to work. > I can add a note to README.Debian similar to the already existing > one for autopoint and cvs. > > Does this look good enough to consider this issue resolved? Sounds good to me, but IMO a Recommands is enough. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
