With the recent xz-utils backdoor, there's been more focus on cases where build systems rely on files produced by "make dist" and included in release tarballs. It's already fairly standard practice for distributions to rebuild configure scripts using autoreconf, but less so to rebuild the files that are produced by gnulib.
I looked into what it would take for Debian's groff package to do a full rebootstrap from its packaged version of gnulib. It seems relatively straightforward, but it requires including bootstrap and bootstrap.conf in tarballs so that we know what modules to use. I've omitted README.git to ensure that we still warn people who don't know what they're doing that running "./bootstrap" may not be the right place to start. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add "bootstrap" and "bootstrap.conf". --- Makefile.am | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index e15a8ff0f..d41d4ee1d 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -797,6 +797,8 @@ endif # Other files that should be present in the distribution tarball. EXTRA_DIST += \ + bootstrap \ + bootstrap.conf \ BUG-REPORT \ ChangeLog.old \ ChangeLog.111 \ -- 2.43.0
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