Re: gnulib and distros

[Bruno Haible]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Afaics the Debian 'gnulib'
> package is refreshed monthly with a git checkout dated "this month's
> 1st day at 00:00". Since gnulib is a 'no release' project I'm not sure
> about it. Usually I perform some testing of my copy of gnulib and I
> refresh it only after a release. At the same time it makes it easier
> (though not automatic, since it's a build-time dependency) to update
> all Debian packages using gnulib should there be a security fix.

Yes. If gnulib development was
  1. always completely backward compatible,
  2. always rock-solid, and never featuring incomplete or broken commits,
then people could run "gnulib --import" every time they get a new snapshot.

The reality is different. Please point the Debian people to
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Steady-Development.html
  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;h=0602705364b43a53aef6c47393b8c9b57dc43217;hb=2d1420f3654605e7c5cf6489b8d0862e247f6701

Bruno