Re: What does autopoint need to work?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Santiago,

> What does autopoint need to work? Is it just "archive.tar.gz" or it
> may use any of the other files gettext installs in /usr/share/gettext?

It is just "archive.tar.gz". And, conversely, 'autopoint' is the only part
of gettext-tools that needs archive.tar.gz.

FYI: In the next release, archive.tar.gz will be replaced by up to 3 files:

      $prefix/share/gettext/archive.cvs.tar.gz
      $prefix/share/gettext/archive.git.tar.gz   (only installed if --with-git 
specified)
      $prefix/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.gz   (only installed if 
--without-cvs specified)

> I ask because I plan to modify the Debian gettext package so that
> "autopoint" is put in a separate package

Indeed, 'autopoint' has a slightly different audience than the other tools:
it is more comparable to autoconf and automake than to the other gettext-tools.

> and I'd like to know if this package should have a dependency on the
> remaining of the "gettext-tools" package.

Such a dependency is not needed, AFAICT.

Bruno