Re: coreutils-6.5 released (stable)

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>> It'd sure be nice to keep gnulib's instability from affecting
>>> "stable" coreutils releases.
>>
>> What I do for my (less-ambitious-than-coreutils) releases is take a
>> snapshot of gnulib, and then use "./bootstrap 
>> --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib-stable".
>> Crude, but it might be good enough.
>
> How about putting that stable snapshot in the repository?

Yes, whatever we use should be publicly accessible.
I hope a tag or a branch will be enough.