Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

[Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>]

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 gnulib-tool is simpler: it fetches from a single source location
only.

How does Debian handle these kinds of source-code dependencies?

Bruno

[1] https://nodejs.org/en/learn/getting-started/an-introduction-to-the-npm-package-manager
[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-fetch.html