Hi!
Despite that gnulib homepage says "Gnulib does not make releases.
It is intended to be used at the source level." gnulib is in fact
packaged in quite a lot of distributions:
https://repology.org/project/gnulib/versions
Note that since there are no official versions maintainers have to
invent
Hi Dmitry,
> Despite that gnulib homepage says "Gnulib does not make releases.
> It is intended to be used at the source level." gnulib is in fact
> packaged in quite a lot of distributions:
>
> https://repology.org/project/gnulib/versions
Indeed e.g. Debian has a gnulib "package":
https://pac
* Bruno Haible (br...@clisp.org) wrote:
> > Despite that gnulib homepage says "Gnulib does not make releases.
> > It is intended to be used at the source level." gnulib is in fact
> > packaged in quite a lot of distributions:
> >
> > https://repology.org/project/gnulib/versions
>
> Indeed e.g. D
On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 20:19 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Are you suggesting that every gnulib commit can be translated to a
> version number? There's 'git describe' which does that.
>
> Or are you suggesting that the Gnulib developers pick, say, every
> 100th Gnulib commit and assign it a version
* Paul Smith (psm...@gnu.org) wrote:
> Regarding the format of the version:
>
> First, semver is not right for gnulib. The entire concept behind
> semver and similar versioning schemes is to use a version string to
> describe compatibility guarantees between different versions. That's
> (IMO) c
On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 23:11 +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Paul Smith (psm...@gnu.org) wrote:
>
> > Regarding the format of the version:
> >
> > First, semver is not right for gnulib. The entire concept behind
> > semver and similar versioning schemes is to use a version string to
> > descri
Hi Dmitry,
> My claim only covers standalone distribution of gnulib. I don't want
> to dig into the reasons for why upstream forces bundling and why
> downstream don't follow it anyway, but the sole fact that it's packaged
> standalone in so many distribution speaks for itself of that this way of
On 2020-06-04 20:19, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Indeed e.g. Debian has a gnulib "package":
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/gnulib/filelist
>
> But I think it's a red herring, since basically no one is using gnulib
> this way.
I agree, it's not really useful: e.g. I'm using openSUSE:Tumbleweed,
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
