Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.16.1.46-3d8e7 missing hint in the tarball

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Darshit,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2015, 22:39:18 schrieb Darshit Shah:
>> Readme.checkout is a file that is only available in the git
>> repository. I guess this is a side effect of having
>> gitlog-to-changelog generate out changelogs. A reference to this file
>> has crept into the tarball.
>> 
>> libio-socket-ssl-perl is required only for running the test suite and
>> hence it not included in the README for the tarball.
>
> AFAICS, the test suite is included in the tarball, isn't it ?
>
> So there is no reason to not run the test suite after compiling.
> To do so, there should be a list of needed software packages (anyway needed 
> for compiling).
>
> What about renaming README.checkout to README + small amendments to the text 
> to distinguish between compiling from tarball and git ? 
>
> What do you think ?

Good idea.  I think we could just append README.checkout to README as it
is now and drop README.checkout.

Regards,
Giuseppe