Re: [PATCH] Distribute bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[Dave Kemper]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 5:31 AM Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

*raises hand*  I am one of those who don't know what they're doing --
at least as regards the build system.  When I build groff from git, I
blindly follow the recipe Bertrand posted a few years ago
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2020-11/msg00068.html), which starts
with the "./bootstrap" step.  Is the above saying this step should be
removed, or replaced with something else?  Or does this change only
apply to tarballs, not git pulls?