Re: gettext, autopoint and cvs
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> (Not sure you're subscribed, apologies if that's the case.)
I am, but do not read it daily so Ccs are welcome.
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> (26/02/2010):
> > Could someone please calculate how many packages currently
> > build-depend on cvs in unstable? (That would be an upper estimation
> > of how many packages would I break in unstable by doing this).
>
> 67 by my count. I used that:
> | $ grep-dctrl -s Package -F Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep cvs /var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*Sources | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u
Thank you.
I've decided to implement "Plan B" anyway: create autopoint as an
empty package which depends on gettext and cvs, as doing so will not
break packages currently having cvs in their build-depends. Then will
submit normal bugs asking to change their build-depends.
Depending on how fast those bugs are fixed, we can decide about making
this transition a release goal or not.
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> I'd (not a release team member) really like autopoint upstream to move
> to a more sane design than depending on CVS and embedding a full CVS
> repository in a tarball in the package.
That's not really the issue I was asking about. I do not decide about
how autopoint is implemented. In fact, I'm not an autopoint user myself.
You might want to contact upstream for that.
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