Re: [PATCH] Distribute bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[Collin Funk]

Hi Colin (nice name),

> I looked into what it would take for Debian's groff package to do a full
> rebootstrap from its packaged version of gnulib.  It seems relatively
> straightforward, but it requires including bootstrap and bootstrap.conf
> in tarballs so that we know what modules to use.

I'm testing gnulib-tool.py on packages at the moment and stumbled upon
this commit in groff. Another option worth considering is using the
gnulib-cache.m4 file.

It is pretty small for groff, so here it is minus the copyright header
and gnulib-tool invocation comment:


# Specification in the form of a few gnulib-tool.m4 macro invocations:
gl_LOCAL_DIR([gl])
gl_MODULES([
  attribute
  fprintf-posix
  git-version-gen
  havelib
  snprintf
  stdbool-c99
  stdint
  sys_wait
  vsnprintf
  wcwidth
])
gl_AVOID([])
gl_SOURCE_BASE([lib])
gl_M4_BASE([gnulib_m4])
gl_PO_BASE([])
gl_DOC_BASE([doc])
gl_TESTS_BASE([tests])
gl_LIB([libgnu])
gl_MAKEFILE_NAME([gnulib.mk])
gl_AUTOMAKE_SUBDIR
gl_MACRO_PREFIX([gl])
gl_PO_DOMAIN([])
gl_WITNESS_C_MACRO([])


I'm not very familiar with Debian packaging, so I am not sure if there
is information you need that is missing there. Here is some links to
the relevant documentation which might help:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#Modified-imports
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#VCS-Issues

Collin