Re: Gnulib in Debian

[Bruno Haible]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> (not yet in Debian, sadly, as they don't like me "vendoring gnulib", as FTP
> Master calls it, or "using gnulib as other packages like Enchant do, and as
> designed", as I call it).

I assume you are alluding to the mail thread that starts at
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/11/msg00110.html> ?

I haven't read the thread. But you write:
  "I am the upstream maintainer of libpaper ..., and also a Debian Maintainer
   trying to get a new version of libpaper into Debian."

Is the problem something that affects the package upstream, or only something
that is specific to Debian?

In the latter case, I don't want to interfere with that. Distros package the
software like they want to. Debian, in particular, has hundreds of pages of
policy documents. It's not my business as an upstream maintainer to interfere
with that. (*)

Bruno

(*) Except when there's a copyright infringement, like it happened in the
Oracle Solaris downstream distribution of GNU libsigsegv. I had to write them,
so they stopped doing that.