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[Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>]

Hi!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:13:03PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Eric, All,
>
> On 2014-06-11 23:04 +0200, Eric Le Bihan spake thusly:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:56:53AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 23:10:36 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> > > > - We are stuck with autoreconf, as it is needed to solve the `ln --relative`
> > > >   issue via a patch, which will not be accepted by upstream [8].
> > >
> > > If we're stuck with autoreconf due to a patch that will not be accepted
> > > upstream, then I would suggest that we move away from autoreconf, and
> > > turn this patch into something that changes Makefile.in and configure
> > > directly, with a good explanation in the patch description.
> > >
> > > Hopefully, ln implementations in distributions will be upgraded, and at
> > > some time, we'll be able to drop the patch.
> > Maybe there will be a backport of coreutils for Debian Wheezy ;-)
> > >
> > > The drawback with this solution is that if we want to create/backport
> > > other systemd patches that require autoreconf, then we're screwed. So
> > > maybe carrying our copy of libgcrypt.m4 as a patch in systemd sources is
> > > the easiest solution here.
> > I think this is the more future-proof solution. I'll post a patch implementing
> > this.
>
> Can we just use the ln wrapper as suggested in the referenced thread?
Should it be provided by the systemd package or should we create a new one?
Are there other packages that require such wrappers?

Best regards,
ELB