GNU bug report logs - #65206
29.1; [windows][patch] build-deps-zips.py is broken and hard to maintain

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 29.1

Done: Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 65206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65206: 29.1; [windows][patch] build-deps-zips.py is broken
 and hard to maintain
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:09:15 -0500
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 8:29 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> Would you mind providing an overview of the process by which the
> script (and maybe some additional measures) collect(s) the list of the
> dependency packages for the binary distro, including the main ideas
> and information sources?  It is hard to glean all that from just a
> patch, or even by reading the script, and I think that, given the
> pains this gives, perhaps some new ideas are in order.

I will happily try my best; sorry that it cannot be immediately/today.
In any case, I completely agree with you.




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