Hi Daiki (and all), if srclist-update were aware of the serial numbers of the files.
1) Not all synced files have serial numbers. 2) It's not clear to me that the decision about syncing should, in principle, be based on serial numbers (or timestamps). 3) Nevertheless I have no particular objection to the idea (it would solve the immediate question, I guess), but I also don't feel like implementing it. I doubt it's going to be the top of anyone else's priority list either. Therefore I've disabled syncing of all gettext<->gnulib files in gnulib/config/srclist.txt. Feel free to revert/change as you like, at any time ... --best, karl.