Hi, Vivien Kraus <[email protected]> skribis:
> Le samedi 06 mai 2023 à 19:20 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit : >> We need to solve that. For now, the only fix I can think of is >> having >> ‘guile-gnutls’ built from a “make dist”-provided tarballs. >> Apparently >> we can add assets at <https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/tags>; would >> you >> like to upload a tarball and accompanying signature, Simon? > > If the problem is with git-download, couldn’t we just use a "git- > archive"-provided tarball, and keep the bootstrapping process? Or are > there further dependencies with the autotools that require a dist- > provided tarball? The ‘gnulib’ package also uses ‘git-fetch’, so we’d at least need to get rid of it. More importantly, tarballs generated by GitLab & co. are usually built on the fly and change over time (details about the tarball headers etc. may change). So we cannot depend them. A tarball produced with ‘make dist’ will have everything we need, including Gnulib. Ludo’.
