On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Tim Retout wrote:

> reopen 456178
> merge 460432 456178
> retitle 460432 gettext: autopoint should avoid using CVS
> kthxbye
> 
> autopoint distributes the CVS repository
> in /usr/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz, and the cvs program is required to
> read it. This is quite innovative, really. From the source:
> 
> # The requirement that the user must have the CVS program available is not
> # a severe restrictions, because most of the people who use autopoint are
> # users of CVS.
> 
> I would say that times have changed since autopoint was written, and
> this should be fixed. Then we can stop arguing over the meaning of
> 'Suggests'. :)

Please talk upstream about this. Perhaps autopoint should not exist at all.
I'm not going to bother the author about this in the name of Debian.



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