On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 04:51:48PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: >> IMHO as long as you are dealing with peoples names you always have to >> respect non-ASCII characters even in pure English environments. > > [KSB] In the United States, it is common to pretend that there are no > non-ASCII characters in names.
So a lot of immigrants are not spelled properly ... hmmm. >> There are only "Build-Depends" (and no Build-Recommends) - so this is >> simple. > > [KSB] I am a little confused as to what this means in practice. Building > GT.M will require ICU (libicu-dev), but this is so that the binaries can > use ICU if it is installed. Running GT.M does not require ICU unless an > application wants to use UTF-8. If you Build-Depend to libicu-dev and it happens that some binary file in the resulting binary package depends from symbols provided in libicu* then the control file variable Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} will be expanded apropriately by the package building tools automatically. Only if libicu* provides stuff which can not be automatically detected (and thus is not required) you need to mention it explicitely and thus have a choice between Recommends and Depends. So most probably the discussion about this is moot anyway because the packaging tools are supposed to handle this properly anyway. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100908055052.ga8...@an3as.eu