On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:45:42AM -0700, Collin Funk wrote: > Hi Colin (nice name),
:-) > > I looked into what it would take for Debian's groff package to do a full > > rebootstrap from its packaged version of gnulib. It seems relatively > > straightforward, but it requires including bootstrap and bootstrap.conf > > in tarballs so that we know what modules to use. > > I'm testing gnulib-tool.py on packages at the moment and stumbled upon > this commit in groff. Another option worth considering is using the > gnulib-cache.m4 file. Yeah, I know of gnulib-cache.m4. However, IMO there's no reason to drop down to that level when the bootstrap script is in use, because bootstrap generates gnulib-cache.m4. Also, ./bootstrap typically does a bit more, sometimes including extra package-specific hooks defined in bootstrap.conf that can't be expressed in gnulib-cache.m4. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
