Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

Bruno Haible writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Finally, while this is somewhat gnulib specific, I think the practice >> goes beyond gnulib > > Yes, gnulib-tool for modules written in C is similar to > > * 'npm install' for JavaScript source code packages [1], > * 'cargo fetch' for Rust sour

Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

On 2024-05-11 07:09, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote: I would assume that (some stripped down version of) git is a requirement to do any useful work on any platform these days, so maybe it isn't a problem Yes, my impression also is that Git has migrated into the realm of cc/gc

Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

Simon Josefsson wrote: > Finally, while this is somewhat gnulib specific, I think the practice > goes beyond gnulib Yes, gnulib-tool for modules written in C is similar to * 'npm install' for JavaScript source code packages [1], * 'cargo fetch' for Rust source code packages [2], except that

De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

All, (going out to both debian-devel and bug-gnulib, please be respectful of each community's different perspectives and trim Cc when focus shifts to any Debian or gnulib specific topics) (please pardon the accidental duplicate post to bug-gnulib...) The content of upstream sourc

De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

All, (going out to both debian-devel and bug-gnulib, please be respectful of each community's different perspectives and trim Cc when focus shifts to any Debian or gnulib specific topics) The content of upstream source code releases can largely be categorized into 1) the actual native

Re: Gnulib in Debian

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 15:56, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > The last aspect should be solved: the latest gnulib in Debian contains a > git bundle of gnulib, That's fantastic, I wish I had thought of that. I still don't fancy doing the necessary packaging work, but I'll

Re: Gnulib in Debian

thing against gnulib in particular!). I also > argued that building against Debian's version of gnulib would risk > introducing bugs (I have found that updating gnulib in my projects can make > previously-working code fail). The last aspect should be solved: the latest gnulib in Debian c

Re: Gnulib in Debian

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 01:51, Bruno Haible wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: > > (not yet in Debian, sadly, as they don't like me "vendoring gnulib", as > FTP > > Master calls it, or "using gnulib as other packages like Enchant do, and > as > > designed", as I call it). > > I assume you are alluding

Re: Gnulib in Debian

Reuben Thomas wrote: > (not yet in Debian, sadly, as they don't like me "vendoring gnulib", as FTP > Master calls it, or "using gnulib as other packages like Enchant do, and as > designed", as I call it). I assume you are alluding to the mail thread that starts at