Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@2008.43-1.org> writes: > liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl ships a `xgettext.pl' which I would like > to see installed in /usr/bin (#508505). In this case there is a small > additional problem: just omitting the extension does not work because > `xgettext' is already provided by gettext. It was suggested to rename > `xgettext.pl' to something completely different (e.g. xgettext-lexicon > or xmaketext), but as I said earlier I think it is not a good idea to > rename programs only in Debian if it can be avoided.
If that xgettext is really just a Perl version xgettext (in other words, that it's written in Perl is really its primary distinguishing factor), then I think this is one of those exceptions that are why Policy says "should" instead of "must". I'd still rather see it called xgettext-perl instead of xgettext.pl, but at that point it's really just an aesthetic preference, which may not warrant diverging from upstream. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
