Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Well, the projects using gnulib (via git submodule) could at least generate
> the 'git describe' value into their NEWS file or other documentation.
Some packages do this already. The latest GNU Bison release announcement [1],
for example:
"This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.16.2
Flex 2.6.4
Gettext 0.19.8.1
Gnulib v0.1-3420-gffbb0ced8
"
> And gnulib could provide helpers for that.
The build-aux/announce-gen script already has support for it:
--gnulib-version=VERSION report VERSION as the gnulib version, where
VERSION is the result of running git describe
in the gnulib source directory.
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2020-05/msg00097.html
