[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 606746] gettext requires CVS????

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--- Comment #4 from Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> 2010-06-22 09:36:44 EDT ---
Well,
With previous gettext-0.17-17.fc14.i686 /usr/bin/autopoint says:
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   342  # Check availability of the CVS program.
   343  (cvs -v) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "cvs program not
found"
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Now gettext-0.18.1.1/NEWS says:
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    10  * Installation options:
    11    The configure option --with-cvs is deprecated. The 'autopoint'
program will
    12    now use the 'git' program by default to compress its archive. If the
    13    configure option --without-git is specified, 'autopoint' will not
rely on
    14    'git', but will instead rely on a locally installed a 3 MB large
archive.
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and actually gettext-0.18.1.1-1.fc14.i686 /usr/bin/autopoint says:
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   389  case "git" in
   390    dir)
   399      ;;
   400  
   401    cvs)
   448      (cvs -v) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "cvs program
not found"
   512      ;;
   513  
   514    git)
   515      # Check availability of the git program.
   516      (git --version) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "git
program not found"
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so now not cvs but git is mandatory....

I think requiring all people using gettext to install git should be
avoided. IMO srpms which actually use autopoint should additional
"BR: git", or in more radical way, autopoint should be split out
into subpackages.

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