Notes about the Debian gettext package
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The gettext package contains a tool called autopoint which needs cvs.
If you use autopoint, you will need to install cvs. If you don't use
autopoint, you don't need to install cvs. Because autopoint is just a
single tool among a lot of other programs in gettext, and not everybody
who install the gettext package will use autopoint, the gettext package
does not depend on cvs. This will give people the freedom to *not*
install cvs if they don't really need it.

Because of this, a package which uses autopoint in its build process
*must* have the cvs package in its Build-Depends field or else it will
have a FTBFS-type bug.


Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
