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#63331
Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency
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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 #13 received at 63331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Hi,
Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu> skribis:
> 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?
The ‘gnulib’ package also uses ‘git-fetch’, so we’d at least need to get
rid of it.
More importantly, tarballs generated by GitLab & co. are usually built
on the fly and change over time (details about the tarball headers
etc. may change). So we cannot depend them.
A tarball produced with ‘make dist’ will have everything we need,
including Gnulib.
Ludo’.
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