> Well, Debian packages snapshots of it. It's useful, > > No, it is insanely wrong, defeating the purpose of gnulib and > causing impossible-to-track bugs due to out-of-sync sources. But > let's not go into that again, you can find the discussions in the > archives if you care.
:) Well, I asked about it just recently, and the maintainer's main reason is that it's not acceptable to have a package that requires an internet connection to be useful. I agree that it's not a good way to use gnulib, which is why I'm switching to using it from git. You do not need a internet connection to compile a project that uses gnulib, the project will include whatever parts of gnulib it uses.
