Dependency missing in doc/INSTALL.

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Reading INSTALL file, I see no 'autopoint' which is required.

[aborodin]

autopoint is a part of gettext.

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In which system? Mine is Ubuntu 11.10, and here gettext lives without
autopoint perfectly, you know. Yes, I know this because I use gettext
all this time and have never had autopoint since fresh install.

Anyway, having subsequential dependency is no evil when one's gettext
requires it; but having not — definetely is, since there are systems
where they were separated. Correct either me or deps.

[aborodin]

In which system?

In each.

gettext lives without autopoint perfectly, you know.

Yes, I know. autopoint is the development part of gettext.

It is the same as glib2-devel, ncurses-devel, etc are missing in INSTALL.

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In which system?
In each.
gettext lives without autopoint perfectly, you know.
Yes, I know. autopoint is the development part of gettext.

It is the same as glib2-devel, ncurses-devel, etc are missing in
INSTALL.
Which package in Ubuntu 11.10 it belongs to? Why does not it install
when one installs gettext? Explain, please, what you mean here.

[aborodin]

I don't care Ubuntu. I use another distro.

Normally, libraries is split in two packages: runtime part (glib2, for example) and development part (glib2-devel).
Some tools can be also split to several packages: gettext itself is runtime part, other tools are development part (autopoint, gettextize, msgcat and so on). In case of correct package dependencies, runtime part doesn't require development part: glib2 doesn't require glib2-devel, gettext doesn't require autopoint, but glib2-devel requires glib2, autopoint requires gettext.

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You said each distro has, this is only the source of misunderstanding.

Well, how you explain the question is not making you right, since
maybe your distro has a 'gettext-dev' package/task, but you did not
specify a dependency that will actually require autopoint any safe
and obvious way: 'autopoint requires gettext' does not mean 'gettext
requires autopoint' (although it conflicts with older autopoint, and
we can guess why).

It's generally quite correct to require a thing by thing-devel
package, but it does not explain how should one with gettext binaries
always have autopoint: since it's a part of gettext devel superset, it
should be either required by other reasonable task/package, or
specified explicitly. Tell where I am wrong. Or fix deps.

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Please, fix it. ^,^