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Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.16.1.46-3d8e7 missing hint in the tarball
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Giuseppe Scrivano |
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Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.16.1.46-3d8e7 missing hint in the tarball |
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Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:19:48 +0100 |
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Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Darshit,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2015, 22:39:18 schrieb Darshit Shah:
>> Readme.checkout is a file that is only available in the git
>> repository. I guess this is a side effect of having
>> gitlog-to-changelog generate out changelogs. A reference to this file
>> has crept into the tarball.
>>
>> libio-socket-ssl-perl is required only for running the test suite and
>> hence it not included in the README for the tarball.
>
> AFAICS, the test suite is included in the tarball, isn't it ?
>
> So there is no reason to not run the test suite after compiling.
> To do so, there should be a list of needed software packages (anyway needed
> for compiling).
>
> What about renaming README.checkout to README + small amendments to the text
> to distinguish between compiling from tarball and git ?
>
> What do you think ?
Good idea. I think we could just append README.checkout to README as it
is now and drop README.checkout.
Regards,
Giuseppe