GNU bug report logs - #63331
Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 17:21:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 63331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 63331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
Subject: Re: bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 22:07:06 +0200

Hi!

Le samedi 06 mai 2023 à 19:20 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> We need to solve that.  For now, the only fix I can think of is
> having
> ‘guile-gnutls’ built from a “make dist”-provided tarballs. 
> Apparently
> we can add assets at <https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/tags>; would
> you
> like to upload a tarball and accompanying signature, Simon?

If the problem is with git-download, couldn’t we just use a "git-
archive"-provided tarball, and keep the bootstrapping process? Or are
there further dependencies with the autotools that require a dist-
provided tarball?

Vivien
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