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and subject line Bug#432270: gettext: autopoint depends: cvs needlessly
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Package: gettext
Version: 0.16.1-1
Severity: serious
/usr/bin/autopoint contains the following excuse for requiring cvs:
# The requirement that the user must have the CVS program available is not
# a severe restrictions, because most of the people who use autopoint are
# users of CVS.
#
# Check availability of the CVS program.
(cvs -v) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "cvs program not found"
Please make that a warning, rather than a fatal error. The alternative
is to Depend: cvs, which is just plain silly.
thanks,
lamont
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, LaMont Jones wrote:
> Package: gettext
> Version: 0.16.1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> /usr/bin/autopoint contains the following excuse for requiring cvs:
>
> # The requirement that the user must have the CVS program available is not
> # a severe restrictions, because most of the people who use autopoint are
> # users of CVS.
> #
> # Check availability of the CVS program.
> (cvs -v) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "cvs program not found"
That's not an excuse but a test, as cvs is actually used later.
If you want autopoint to be completely rewritten so that it does
not use cvs, please contact the author. I'm not going to do that myself.
> Please make that a warning, rather than a fatal error. The alternative
> is to Depend: cvs, which is just plain silly.
The status of cvs is explained in /usr/share/doc/gettext/README.Debian,
which I consider to be a good compromise.
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