Re: [Monotone-devel] Packages for Debian testing

[Zack Weinberg]

On 7/7/07, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
> There's really only one little difference between debian/control in
> n.v.m and the one in my snapshot branch:
>
>  Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.28), debhelper (>= 4.0.0), autotools-dev,
> - libboost-filesystem-dev, libboost-regex-dev, libboost-dev, libz-dev
> + libboost-filesystem-dev, libboost-regex-dev, libboost-dev, libz-dev,
> + po-debconf
>
> Is po-debconf something we actually need?  I've never really checked,
> but it was there in the n.v.m.debian branch once upon a time...

That is a very interesting question.  I've looked into it, and I
believe we do need that dependency, or else the translated debconf
templates for the monotone-server package don't get installed right.
So far so simple; what makes the question interesting is that the
po-debconf documentation says one should also run the
'debconf-updatepo' command from one's debian/rules clean target.  CDBS
does not do this, and I'm skeptical that it should be done; the effect
is (essentially) to run msgmerge on all the template .po files, which
is exactly what the translators for the main .po files have told us
not to do.  Perhaps things are different for debconf translations?  I
don't know, nor do I know who to ask.

zw