Re: Gnulib & bootstrap updates

[Collin Funk]

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