Ian Beckwith wrote: > 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).
The downloading mechanism should IMO be part of Debian, not gnulib upstream, because it involves - detection of presence/absence of internet connection, - choice of mirror, - verification of the integrity of the download. Whether you present it as a gnulib-tool option, or provide a separate script for doing that, I don't have an opinion about that. Bruno