On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 15:56, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:

The last aspect should be solved: the latest gnulib in Debian contains a
git bundle of gnulib,

That's fantastic, I wish I had thought of that. I still don't fancy doing the necessary packaging work, but I'll let those who have been helping me know that there's a viable alternative.

I should write a post to debian-devel describing this pattern on
how to use gnulib in Debian packages, but you can infer everything from
the links given in my blog post [1] and the latest upload of libntlm
into Debian.

Thanks very much for writing this up. If in a few years libpaper2 has still not made it into Debian I shall probably find the energy to look at it myself!

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