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- Notes about the Debian gettext package
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-
- The gettext package contains a tool called autopoint which needs cvs.
- If you use autopoint, you will need to install cvs. If you don't use
- autopoint, you don't need to install cvs. Because autopoint is just a
- single tool among a lot of other programs in gettext, and not everybody
- who install the gettext package will use autopoint, the gettext package
- does not depend on cvs. This will give people the freedom to *not*
- install cvs if they don't really need it.
-
- Because of this, a package which uses autopoint in its build process
- *must* have the cvs package in its Build-Depends field or else it will
- have a FTBFS-type bug.
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- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
-