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

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:
> -=| Ansgar Burchardt, Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:43:29PM +0100 |=-
>> 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.
>
> How about installing xgettext.pl as /usr/bin/xgettext-lexicon? That 
> could work, provided someone writes a man page for it :)

Why not just keep the name "xgettext.pl" in this case?  It is less
confusing than a completely different name.  Also other documentation
(e.g. Catalyst::Plugin::I18N::Manual) refers to "xgettext.pl".

xgettext.pl already provides documentation, all that is needed is a
pod2man run :-)

Regards,
Ansgar

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