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Re: how to package gocr



On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Cosimo Alfarano wrote:

> (this is the forth time I send this email because of my ISP
> misconfiguration, I can't see anyone o my msg, sorry for any mistake)
> 
> EHLO all,
>  I'm packaging gocr (an OCR). It is a command line program, but it has a
>  wrapper in tcl:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    178264 2000-08-26 18:37:59 ./usr/bin/gocr
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root     12467 2000-08-26 18:37:57 ./usr/bin/gocr.tcl
> 
> wrapper is very small, but depends on wish (so on tcl tk too).
> 
> I've put 'Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10, wish'

I hope this is inside the control file a:

Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, wish

> Which is the best solution, let gocr depends on wish or 
> make two packages (1 with only one small binary)?

If it is likely that there are people that use only gocr it's perhaps the
best solution to make two packages.

> thanks,
> KA.

cu,
Adrian

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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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