tag 583222 wontfix thanks On Di, 2010-06-22 at 22:17 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:13:07PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > On Mi, 2010-05-26 at 23:25 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Package: dh-autoreconf > > > Version: 1 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Although libtool recommends libltdl-dev, it is not recommended by > > > dh-autoreconf. Since this recommend autopoint, this is not fair. > > > > > > It should help people to get Depends line right easier by adding > > > libltdl-dev to recommends. > > No. Only 61 packages build-depend on libltdl-dev, so it does not make > > sense to include it. I only included autopoint because it was mentioned > > in autotools-dev README.Debian (and libltdl-dev is not mentioned there); > > and because I thought it somehow replaces the gettext package for > > autoreconf stuff. > > > > I will recommend gettext in dh-autoreconf v2, but libltdl-dev really > > looks a bit too exotic to me. > > Situation is: > dh-autoreconf depends on debhelper > debhelper depends on po-debconf > po-debconf depends on gettext > gettext recommends autopoint > > So adding gettext serves no one. It is automatically pulled.
So I wasted two commits because of you: " autopoint was not enough to get it going. (it did not pull in gettext. Previous packager was using upstream supplied gmo files.) Anyway, adding gettext to Recommends: may be good idea, too." > > (autopoint may likely be installed but not forced to be > installed. Thus reminding it directly is good idea.) > > If you think recommends are too much for libltdl-dev, "suggests" may be > useful for people wondering what is missing. So people have easy time > finding possible dependency. I don't care about the 0.37% using it. Tagging the bug as wontfix. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
