On 2025-07-23 12:24, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Brian,
Dev has issues with CI conflicts between "native" CI git installed and Cygwin
git package install with gettext-devel, asking whether and why gettext-devel
requires git(-archive?) and whether we could drop git from the (manual additions
to) gettext-devel package install dependencies on Cygwin?
It is undocumented and unclear to me what role
gettext-tools/misc/convert-archive plays in packaging other packages using
gettext/-devel, and what is the impact if I package gettext/-devel
--without-git?
The 'autopoint' program can install the infrastructure of any earlier gettext
release, so that dev teams can have the same 'configure' file even if individual
developers have different versions of gettext installed (assuming they use
the same versions of autoconf and automake).
Therefore GNU gettext comes with an archive of the prior versions. This
archive would be more than 30 MB large without compression. Different ways
exist to compress it, see [1]. 'git', 'cvs', and the 'xz' compression program
are all good choices.
If you build GNU gettext without a dependency to the 'git' package, the
archive's format should not use git (otherwise there is a risk that
'autopoint' will not work). Probably you will not want a dependency to 'cvs'
either, since that is outdated. The other good choice is thus a dependency
on the 'xz' program. So, try to configure GNU gettext with
--without-git --without-cvs --without-bzip2 --with-xz
Thanks Bruno,
You provide uncompressed archive.dir.tar in your .tar.lz, and we package it as
the default .tar.xz:
$ tar -tvf …/gettext-0.22.5.tar.lz …/gettext-tools/misc/archive.dir.tar
… 32931840 2024-02-21 05:36 …/gettext-tools/misc/archive.dir.tar
$ tar -tvf …/gettext-devel-0.22.5-1.tar.xz usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz
… 413232 2024-02-26 09:46 usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz
IIUC, git is not required, we can drop git and bz2 as build-deps, package with
the --without-{bz2,cvs,git} config flags, and not really affect existing or
future packages.
Is that our situation?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
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