On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:17:03PM -0400, P. J. McDermott wrote: > I wonder if the gettext binary package should instead be split. Perhaps > gettext-runtime (M-A: same) should provide the libraries, gettext-tools > (M-A: foreign) should provide the tools, and gettext should be a > metapackage that depends on both of the former packages?
> Steve, is there any particular reason you didn't go this route for Ubuntu? Primarily out of a desire to not introduce package splits in Ubuntu that were not reflected in Debian. In the long term, it seems to be preferable to split the library packages out so that they can be co-installable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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