On 7/4/24 21:49, Simon Josefsson wrote:
The Debian gnulib package has a symlink in /usr/bin that goes to /usr/share/gnulib, and there are several source packages that invoke gnulib this way. While this suggest the usage exists, I don't think it necessarily means we must continue support it -- this symlink business has always felt fragile and like a weird way of working to me.
Yes it's fragile and weird, but people use it so that's a good argument for keeping it.