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Bug#921954: gnulib



Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:

> I am happy that gnulib is in good hands.
>
> I've moved on to other challenges, and have no interest in working on
> gnulib now.  That said, you are welcome to try nudge me if some concrete
> task emerges where you image I might be of help.

Thank you for support!

Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> writes:

> Thanks for your work; I am okay with the changes. For git bundle
> reproducibility, seeking advice from Debian people in the reproducible-
> builds project may be helpful. With the changes in project structure, it
> might be useful to provide documents about how to use the updated gnulib
> Debian package for other Debian software packagers.

Definitely, my blog post [1] illustrates how it can be done, but the
details for a Debian packager is sketchy.  I should summarize how to
convert a Debian package from a traditional 'make dist' tarball that
includes gnulib to a 'git-archive' based approach that uses gnulib from
the Debian package, maybe as a debian-devel post.

However I don't think it is wise to do that for packages that are
validating PGP signatures of the existing tarball and there is an
upstream that doesn't provide PGP signed 'git-archive' releases.  We can
nudge upstream's to sign 'git-archive' exports of their projects,
though.

/Simon

[1] https://blog.josefsson.org/2024/04/13/reproducible-and-minimal-source-only-tarballs/

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