On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:05:57PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Josh Triplett wrote: > > >On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:41:28PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Josh Triplett wrote: > >>>xterm Recommends: x11-utils > >>> > >>>Please consider noting the reason for this recommendation in the package > >>>description. A quick review of the contents of x11-utils didn't suggest > >>>any obvious reason why xterm might want it. > >> > >>probably because luit is bundled in with this collection. > >>(appres is another likely reason). > > > >Ah, luit makes sense; so, uxterm needs x11-utils to handle non-UTF-8 > >locales? > > That sounds correct.
How about the following addition to the package description, then: " xterm Recommends x11-utils for the "luit" Unicode-to-locale translation helper, which uxterm needs in order to handle non-UTF-8 locales. " (I also wonder whether koi8rxterm has some similar need, in which case this description should mention that as well.) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
