Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Jim,

On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all
>> the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4
>> gpgv).
> 
> You say that as if there were a problem with the maint.mk rule.
> The rule relies on the existence of a program named "gpgv".  If your
> distribution or packaging tool chooses to call that binary gpgv2,

Well, gnupg-2.0.22 itself chooses to call that binary gpgv2, which  is
why I reported it, because I imagine many other maintainers use a distro
that ships gnupg-2.x rather that gnupg-1.4.x by default.

> I encourage you simply to create (early in your path) a symlink mapping
> the version-dependent name to the "right" one.  Making the names of
> such tools depend on the package version is not sustainable, and I'm
> reluctant to make the rule accommodate it.

Apple confounds me even more by shipping gnupg2, but without even a gpgv2
binary, so I have to build gnupg-1.4 anyway.  My original report was
inspired by the idea that most GNU maintainers would want to use the
latest gnupg release, in which case the canonical name really is gpgv2.

I have no strong feelings about it though; as long I've raised the
issue, I know gnulib is making an informed decision on how to deal with
it.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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