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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:13:16PM +0100 |=-
> 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?

If they are compatible...

> > How about installing xgettext.pl as /usr/bin/xgettext-lexicon? 
> > That could work, provided someone writes a man page for it :)
> 
> That, too.

manpage still needs to be written even if diversion is used.

> Are they both compatible?

Not sure. Since I use it primarily for a mix of Perl and TT code, the 
later of which is surely not supported by gettext...

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