Am Fr., 23. Aug. 2024 um 17:46 Uhr schrieb Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 22 2024, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > Am Do., 22. Aug. 2024 um 14:37 Uhr schrieb Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have noticed that notmuch-git was not being copied to an appropriate
> >> destination during make install.  This patch adds that.
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  Makefile.local | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local
> >> index 7699c208..34e8b882 100644
> >> --- a/Makefile.local
> >> +++ b/Makefile.local
> >> @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ notmuch-shared: $(notmuch_client_modules) lib/$(LINKER_NAME)
> >>  install: all install-man install-info
> >>         mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/bin/"
> >>         install notmuch-shared "$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/bin/notmuch"
> >> +       install notmuch-git "$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/bin/notmuch-git"
> >
> > notmuch-git(1) mentions nmbug, so we'd want to install that as well, don't we?
>
> I don't know.   I have never even contemplated using it but it looks
> much more like an internal tool to me.
>
> However, after a discussion about notmuch-git on the IRC I learned that
> there may be plans to change it, so perhaps even my patch should be
> postponed until after that.  I really don't know.

I just think that if the doc points to both we should install both.

In Debian and Fedora, we do so already - in a sub-package, that is. An
equivalent could be a make target which installs both but isn't
necessarily part of the install target.
nmbug is just a link to notmuch-git, btw.

Cheers
Michael
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