Re: ITP: gettext-base
Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> Ok, I've done the math: A "gettext-base" package containing the
> /usr/bin/gettext binary, all the message catalogs, and just the required
> bits at /usr/doc/gettext-base has an approximate size of just 70K
> (compressed). This is considerably smaller than the 340K (compressed) of
> gettext in slink, so it may worth the effort to do the split.
>
> So, if there are not objections, sections and priorities will be like
> this:
>
> gettext-base base standard
> gettext devel optional
>
> I would like some policy saying that packages should not Depend or
> Recommend gettext-base but instead check for /usr/bin/gettext and use
> "echo" if it does not exist. I don't want people to lose the freedom to
> uninstall gettext or gettext-base if these packages are not needed in
> the system. Maybe I'll make a proposal for this in debian-policy.
shouldn't "gettext" contain the binary, and "gettext-dev" contain the
development stuff for it?
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