Bug#508505: liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl: please install xgettext.pl in /usr/bin

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:34:21 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> > It would be nice to install xgettext.pl (currently provided in
> > examples/) in /usr/bin.  It's only a simple wrapper script, but it has
> > several features the `xgettext' (from gettext) does not provide, e.g.
> > support for Template Toolkit sources.
> The problem with installing that in /usr/bin is that
> (1) .pl extension is to be avoided, and if we obey that rule,
> (2) the package would have to conflict with gettext, on which depend 
> ~50 other packages.

Maybe we could use some dpkg-divert stuff?
 
> How about installing xgettext.pl as /usr/bin/xgettext-lexicon? That 
> could work, provided someone writes a man page for it :)

That, too.

Are they both compatible?

Cheers,
gregor 
 
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