Remove the dependency of the gettext and ngettext programs towards

libgettextlib.
Recommend a split packaging.

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+Packaging hints for binary package distributors
+===============================================
+
+Although the source of the gettext package comes as a single package,
+I recommend that in distributions of binary packages the installed files
+be split into two packages:
+
+   gettext
+        Contents: Runtime libraries and programs.
+        Audience: Anyone who wants to run internationalized programs.
+
+   gettext-tools
+        Contents: Tools and documentation for developers and translators.
+        Audience: Anyone who wants to develop or localize internationalized
+                  programs, i.e. developers and translators.
+        Dependencies: requires gettext.
+
+The 'gettext' binary package is much smaller than the 'gettext-tools' binary
+package (90 KB versus 4 MB). I recommend to include it in the default
+installation list, like GNU 'sh-utils'; in fact, the runtime programs are
+utilities for sh programs.
+
+The precise split between gettext and gettext-tools is according to the
+following file list.
+
+   gettext
+
+      $prefix/bin/gettext
+      $prefix/bin/ngettext
+      $prefix/man/man1/gettext.1
+      $prefix/man/man1/ngettext.1
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/gettext.1.html
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/ngettext.1.html
+      $prefix/share/gettext/ABOUT-NLS
+      $prefix/share/gettext/libintl.jar
+      $prefix/lib/libintl.*               (not installed on glibc systems)
+      $prefix/lib/charset.alias           (not installed on glibc systems)
+      $prefix/share/locale/locale.alias   (not installed on glibc systems)
+      $prefix/include/libintl.h           (not installed on glibc systems)
+
+   gettext-tools
+
+      Everything else, i.e. currently:
+
+      $prefix/bin/msg*
+      $prefix/bin/xgettext
+      $prefix/bin/gettextize
+      $prefix/man/man1/msg*.1
+      $prefix/man/man1/xgettext.1
+      $prefix/man/man3/*
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/msg*.1.html
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/xgettext.1.html
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/*.3.html
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/javadoc1/*
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/javadoc2/*
+      $prefix/doc/gettext/gettext_*.html
+      $prefix/info/gettext.info*
+      $prefix/lib/libgettextlib.*
+      $prefix/lib/libgettextsrc.*
+      $prefix/lib/gettext/*
+      $prefix/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gettext.mo
+      $prefix/share/gettext/config.rpath
+      $prefix/share/gettext/intl/*
+      $prefix/share/gettext/po/*
+      $prefix/share/gettext/projects/*
+      $prefix/share/gettext/gettext.h
+      $prefix/share/gettext/gettext.jar
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/codeset.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/glibc21.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/iconv.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/isc-posix.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/lcmessage.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/lib-ld.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/lib-link.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4
+      $prefix/share/aclocal/progtest.m4
+      $prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.el
+      $prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.elc