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 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
