> Yes, and actually, that bugs me quite a lot. While gnulib is still finding > its feet, that's still acceptable, but at some point (the core interfaces of) > gnulib really ought to settle down. And I've moaned on and off that it > really would be very nice (for the sake of being able to rebuild old tarballs > of > gnulib client releases at least) if gnulib made an occasional formal > release.
See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/14886 -- it has the disadvantage of disallowing shallow clones, but it is a way to fix the "rebuilding old tarballs" part. Paolo
