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Package: gnulib
Version: 20081101-1
Severity: wishlist
Since gnulib is not released, why not make it like one of the non-free
pseudo-packages that downloads its real content? It could simply check
out the git respository into /var, and make links to the various
files. (I'm imagining that this wouldn't take more effort than the
current monthly update, except of course for a greater risk of
breakage.)
Then simply make the script that runs at install time available, so
that users can run it when they like (e.g. monthly, weekly, daily,
manually).
The worry, I suppose, would be that things would eventually break. Of
course, there's nothing to stop your upgrading the package to cope
with that, and equally one could degrade gracefully, so that e.g. some
modules not being found wouldn't derail the whole update.
Since I can't see any installation instructions in gnulib itself,
maybe it's something upstream would also be interested to collaborate
on? It would be good to have a way of distributing it that fits better
with their (lack of a) release model.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
gnulib depends on no packages.
gnulib recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnulib suggests:
ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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Hi,
> Since gnulib is not released, why not make it like one of the non-free
> pseudo-packages that downloads its real content?
Since I started doing upstream stable snapshots (granted, on a rather
erratic schedule) and packaging those, the gnulib package is no longer
just a copy of the git repo at a particular time, so its worth keeping
the package as-is.
Closing the bug.
thanks,
Ian.
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