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Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

From Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages
Date 2024-05-11 18:00 +0200
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Finally, while this is somewhat gnulib specific, I think the practice
> goes beyond gnulib

Yes, gnulib-tool for modules written in C is similar to

  * 'npm install' for JavaScript source code packages [1],
  * 'cargo fetch' for Rust source code packages [2],

except that gnulib-tool is simpler: it fetches from a single source location
only.

How does Debian handle these kinds of source-code dependencies?

Bruno

[1] https://nodejs.org/en/learn/getting-started/an-introduction-to-the-npm-package-manager
[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-fetch.html

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De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2024-05-11 16:10 +0200
  Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> - 2024-05-11 18:00 +0200
    Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2024-05-11 18:40 +0200
  Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> - 2024-05-11 18:50 +0200
  Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-05-12 14:10 +0200
    Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2024-05-12 16:30 +0200
      Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-05-12 21:00 +0200
        gzip --rsyncable (was: Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages) Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2024-05-20 10:30 +0200
    Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2024-05-12 17:50 +0200
      Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Ansgar 🙀 <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2024-05-12 18:30 +0200
        Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2024-05-12 19:50 +0200

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