Bug#508230: /usr/bin/autopoint: Please make it possible, to use autopoint without cvs (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this report from the debian bug system. I'm a little bit
puzzled, however. Is this a case of "don't do that, then"?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Biebl <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:21:56 +0100
Subject: Bug#508230: /usr/bin/autopoint: Please make it possible,
    to use autopoint without cvs

Package: gettext
Version: 0.17-6
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/autopoint

Hi,

running "autoreconf" on almost any GNOME project will call autopoint,
which in turn calls cvs.
I already had a failing build of a package because of that.

I read the existing README file and I agree with you, that the gettext
package should *not* have a dependency on cvs.

Instead I suggest to provide a sane fallback, if cvs is not found, i.e.
ship a well tested and up-to-date copy of the files in archive.tar.gz in
gettext, and use those files, if cvs is not available.

Depending on a internet connection in a buildd is not a good idea
anyway.

Cheers,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.8
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gettext depends on:
ii  gettext-base              0.17-6         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                     2.7-16         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcroco3                 0.6.1-2        a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.18.3-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgomp1                  4.3.2-1        GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20081129-1 shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages gettext recommends:
ii  curl                          7.18.2-7   Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  wget                          1.11.4-2   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages gettext suggests:
ii  cvs                         1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System
pn  gettext-doc                 <none>       (no description available)

-- no debconf information