On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:00:08PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Colin Watson [2012-11-21 12:57 +0000]:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 03:08:35AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > > +Package: libgettextpo-dev
> > > +Section: libdevel
> > > +Architecture: any
> > > +Multi-Arch: same
> > > +Depends: libgettextpo0 (= ${binary:Version})
> > > +Suggests: gettext-doc
> > > +Description: GNU Internationalization library development files
> > > + This package contains development files for the libgettextpo library.
> >
> > This needs "Replaces: gettext (<< 0.18.1.1-10)", as it includes files
> > previously in gettext.
>
> good point.
It occurred to me that policy says you want a corresponding Breaks as
well. Sorry for not mentioning that before.
> > Also, the file lists of libgettextpo-dev and libasprintf-dev both look
> > rather wrong. Both of them contain both /usr/include/gettext-po.h and
> > /usr/include/autosprintf.h, but they ought to have one of those each.
> > libgettextpo-dev contains lots of stuff in /usr/share/gettext/, while
> > libasprintf-dev contains lots of stuff in /usr/share/aclocal/, and
> > neither looks right - surely these directories still belong in the
> > gettext package?
>
> This patch was 90% guesswork as I don't know what _any_ of the
> files/binaries in gettext actually do which greatly limited how much
> expertise I could apply to the problem.
>
> All that seems reasonable to me, but then almost anything would. Which
> package should /usr/share/gettext/intl live in? They looked like
> headers so I put them in the -dev package. But there is .c in there
> too. OK some reading online says that these are stuff done by
> gettextize and do not seem arch-dependent so should indeed be in
> gettext main package.
Right.
> Like I say, having no idea how this package
> works, or what the parts do, limits my ability to make intelligent
> choices.
I would say that only things tightly associated with libasprintf and
libgettextpo - so autosprintf.h / gettext-po.h respectively plus the
corresponding .a/.so - should go in the -dev package.
Everything else (and in particular everything under /usr/share/aclocal/
and /usr/share/gettext/) should stay exactly where it is, in the main
gettext package; it's generally only intended for being copied into
people's source packages by various tools.
> Cheers for checking my shoddy work - I was hoping that sending in a
> patch would prompt someone to comment on how broken it was :-)
Traditional Internet approach :-)
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Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
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