Hi, Sorry about the delay replying.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Welcome! It was a bit unfortunate that gnulib was "frozen" in Debian for > about a year, although gnulib attempts to be constantly moving and > improving. See > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Steady-Development.html I'm planning uploading roughly monthly snapshots to the debian unstable distribution, However, due to the way debian release management works, once a package reaches the stable distribution, it can only be updated to fix security problems. This means that although users of the unstable and testing distributions will have a pretty up to date gnulib, users of the stable distribution will have a version that is potentially quite out of date. > If you want to add value to gnulib, compared to the git repository, you > might want to periodically update to a stable snapshot of gnulib. This means, > for example, once in a month, take a snapshot of gnulib, then for a week > watch closely all patches that go into gnulib's git repository, looking out > for riskless fixes. Then publish a tarball with these fixes. This would > be added value in terms of reliability/quality, because despite our efforts > to not break the gnulib git, sometimes a particular module is broken for a > day or two. OK. I'll definitely do this when its time for the stable debian release, and I'll give it a try monthly and see how it goes. I'm cautious of committing long-term to monthly stable snapshots until I know how much time it involves. > Also, I see in http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gnulib that the formal > dependencies listed in gnulib/DEPENDENCIES (make, autoconf, automake, > bison, gperf etc.) are not listed among the Debian dependencies. These > tools are all needed in order to execute "gnulib-tool --create-testdir" > of the whole module set. Thanks, I'll fix this in the next version. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA
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