Hi Simon and Gulliem, On 5/8/24 1:06 PM, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for the GNU Internet utilities wrote: > Hi Guillem. I added the bootstrap files to the tarball now. > > I'm not convinced that this is a good idea, so let's consider this an > experiment. First, this is not recommended by gnulib documentation. > Several GNU projects (like coreutils) ship the scripts, and it is good > license compliance hygiene to include all source code, so maybe that is > a gnulib documentation problem -- but I suspect the reason for this lack > of recommendation are due to the second and third issues.
I agree with the points that you bring up. But I noticed a Debian developer decided to do the same with groff after the xz-utils fiasco [1]. So maybe it is worth experimenting with. Hopefully reading the documentation included in the tarball should clear up the build process for people installing it that way. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-03/msg00211.html Collin
