Hi, Sorry about the delay replying.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:03:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Our argument has been that gnulib is for developers, and probably should > not be distributed as a package. Read gnulib-intro.texi for why we think > that snapshots of gnulib are counter-productive. > um, oh. For what it's worth, the package does have users, and I think its useful to have it integrated with the system so things like documentation are available through the usual mechanisms. Hopefully the stable-snapshot thing in my other mail will placate you. There is a wishlist bug report in debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522187 suggesting an additional installer-style package for gnulib that downloads the latest version direct from the git repo. It occurs to me that it might be better to have as an option to gnulib-tool, maybe --git-clone or something along those lines, with maybe an option to set up a cron job to pull from the master repo (bad idea if they are going to hack on gnulib itself, but I assume most people won't). Do you think this is worth doing? 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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