On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:13:07PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Mi, 2010-05-26 at 23:25 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Package: dh-autoreconf > > Version: 1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Although libtool recommends libltdl-dev, it is not recommended by > > dh-autoreconf. Since this recommend autopoint, this is not fair. > > > > It should help people to get Depends line right easier by adding > > libltdl-dev to recommends. > No. Only 61 packages build-depend on libltdl-dev, so it does not make > sense to include it. I only included autopoint because it was mentioned > in autotools-dev README.Debian (and libltdl-dev is not mentioned there); > and because I thought it somehow replaces the gettext package for > autoreconf stuff. > > I will recommend gettext in dh-autoreconf v2, but libltdl-dev really > looks a bit too exotic to me.
Situation is: dh-autoreconf depends on debhelper debhelper depends on po-debconf po-debconf depends on gettext gettext recommends autopoint So adding gettext serves no one. It is automatically pulled. (autopoint may likely be installed but not forced to be installed. Thus reminding it directly is good idea.) If you think recommends are too much for libltdl-dev, "suggests" may be useful for people wondering what is missing. So people have easy time finding possible dependency. Osamu > -- > Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member > > See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
