On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:10:00 +0700 Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote: > I find somewhat unusual for the following packages to depend on > gettext, given that the latter is a collection of utilities of > interest primarily to software developers and maintainers (as > stated in its own Description:.) Could someone please clarify > on this? TIA. > > gnac audio converter for GNOME > gosa Web Based LDAP Administration Program > istanbul Desktop session recorder producing Ogg Theora video > poker-web Web interface to a poker-network server > > (I've also filed Bug#690860 against Source: gnunet, which, AIUI, > the maintainer intents to fix by dropping the dependency.) Check if the package contains a shell script which supports translated output strings - such packages should Depend: gettext-base rather than drop the dependency entirely. I've had a quick look at gnas and it does seem that this is a case where gettext-base is required, but not gettext. gettext should only be necessary for packages or tasks which *manipulate* PO files directly, rather than use the processed .mo files to generate translated output. So, Build-Depends: yes, Depends: probably a bug. gettext-base is only really needed when the package provides shell scripts with translated output because those evaluate the gettext process at runtime but that only requires gettext-base, not gettext. Could be worth filing a wishlist bug against lintian because it should be quite easy to spot. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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