Re: maint: Distribute help2man script.

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes:

> Thanks for the finding!  Is that building from tarball or from git?

It is the same as the other CI written by Bruno Haible, so from git.

> But please, let's not add more copies of external tools to version
> control sources.  That is a software supply-chain nightmare.  How would
> we keep this copy of help2man synchronized with upstream, which could
> warrant quick action in case security bugs?  Who will spend time
> auditing this?
[...]
> There is no need for these .x-* files anymore, put exceptions in cfg.mk
> instead.

Sounds good. I reverted the commit [1], and will just use the tarball
from ftp.gnu.org where the package isn't available on the system.

Collin

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=9ab1f527c1ef9e93fe04f6e6ace64c6b82be8433