On 08 Sep 2021 10:41, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> > there's no existing notes like that in gnulib/README that i can see.  how
> > about updating gnulib/update-gnulib.sh to list dependencies for each module
> > that is listed there ?  that'd solve the issue of the two files falling out
> > of sync.
> 
> I don't follow you.  I was just saying that sometimes, there are reasons
> why we don't want to import a given gnulib module, because it doesn't
> work for us.  Like, there was an issue with stat, I don't remember the
> details exactly.  If that happens, it would be good to have a note
> somewhere explaining it.

sorry, i thought you wanted to document modules that were imported, not ones
that we were explicitly omitting.  i'm not familiar with the history of the
stat module here to help.
-mike