Hi Andy,
> Question, do you think it would be reasonable for autopoint to avoid
> overwriting newer files? It seems like the sort of problem we could
> avoid, but who knows.
Such a solution would be
- partly ineffective, because Gnulib has only recently started to use
'# serial ...' annotations (with the correct syntax) in its *.m4 files,
- hairy, because it could lead to one file being copied and another file
being not copied. In other words, it's a heuristic, and heuristics are
buggy.
Although it's not perfect, it's probably better to let the package maintainer
decide whether to run 'autopoint' and at which moment.
> > The way Guile handles versioning of Gnulib-imported files is fine.
>
> That's great to hear. In that case, no change planned to how we do
> things.
Well, through the new fast gnulib-tool [1] there is now the opportunity to
remove the copied gnulib files from your package's repository [2].
If a gnulib-tool invocation is added to autogen.sh, it no longer takes more
time to execute than the rest of autogen.sh.
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-04/msg00003.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-04/msg00320.html
