Re: gnulib now a subrepo

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/11/18 Rik <address@hidden>:

> From: Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
>> I don't see any reason for anyone to be using an older hg.
>
> One reason is a dislike of sysadmin activities.  I run the Long Term
> Release version of Kubuntu (from 4/2010) so that things stay more or
> less stable for a few years.  Currently, I'm only on version 1.4 of
> Mercurial.  I guess I'll try and find a PPA for it.

Sorry. I was hoping it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. Does this
help?

    https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases

>> There is now an .hgsub file at the top-level directory that should
>> map the gnulib/ directory to its Savannah URL.

> Does this invalidate the --gnulib-srcdir option to configure?

It shouldn't. All I changed to the configure script is that by default
it now doesn't attempt a git checkout. You can still pass the git
checkout options if you wnat.

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.