On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 22:03, Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org> wrote:

>
> I have seen Simon's post about this. The new gnulib package has a new
> README that describes how to use the Debian
> package. There is a slight chance that FTP Masters might intervene in
> having a git bundle in a package because their
> reasoing to forbid the 3.0 (git) source format in the archive is that it
> is far easier to confirm that a file set is
> legally distributable when it is a plain tar archive. We will see.


One might hope that gnulib would be accepted because as a project it is
particularly careful about licensing. In particular, gnulib-tool lets you
vet the licenses of the modules you install in your package.


>
> For libpaper, we can think of using the new gnulib package when it has
> passed NEW. It is sitting in there waiting for an
> ack.


OK, thanks for staying up-to-date on this!

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