[meego-packaging] Changes to gettext package in MeeGo

[Anas Nashif]

Can you please share a pointer to this "upstream advice"?

Anas

On 2010-08-09, at 10:13 AM, Li, Yan I wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> For reducing MeeGo footprints and better upstream compliance, MeeGo's
> gettext package is split according to upstream PACKAGING advice:
> 
> gettext now contains two sub-packages: gettext-libs and gettext-devel.
> gettext-libs is an LGPLv2+ package that contains libraries and runtime
> needed by i18n programs; gettext-devel is used only for development
> and building -- and shouldn't be needed by end users. Package that
> needs gettext should include gettext-libs in Requires and
> gettext-devel in BuildRequires (gettext is now a meta-package that
> depends on gettext-devel for transition.)
> 
> This change is now in Trunk:Testing.
> 
> (MeeGo's old gettext also contained -libs and -devel sub-packages but
> they were not split according to upstream advice.)
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Li, Yan
> 
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> From: Peter Zhu <peter.j.zhu at intel.com>
> Date: August 9, 2010 9:30:11 AM GMT+01:00
> To: "Li, Yan I" <yan.i.li at intel.com>
> Cc: "meego-commits at meego.com" <meego-commits at meego.com>
> Subject: 6363 accepted: Trunk:Testing/gettext
> 
> 
> Hi Yan Li,
> The following change has been accepted. See the changelog below.
> 
> Comments:
>    Thank you
> 
> Thanks,
> MeeGo Release Engineering Team
> 
> [This message was auto-generated]
> ---
> Request #6363:
> 
>  submit:   home:yanli:branches:Trunk:Testing/gettext(r2)(cleanup) -> Trunk:Testing/gettext
> 
> 
> Message:
>    Split package according to upstream PACKAGING advice: gettext is split into two packages: gettext-libs and gettext-devel. gettext-libs is an LGPLv2+ package that contains libraries and runtime needed by i18n programs; gettext-devel is used only for development and building -- and shouldn't be needed by end users. Package that needs gettext should include gettext-libs in Requires and gettext-devel in BuildRequires (gettext is now a meta-package that depends on gettext-devel for transition.) Updated to latest upstream release. Patch gettext-0.17-open-args.patch dropped, already in upstream.
> 
> State:   accepted     2010-08-08T20:21:54 peter
> Comment: Thank you
> 
> 
> History: new          2010-08-08T15:08:07 yanli
> 
> 
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