About the manual (gcrypt.texi)

[NIIBE Yutaka]

Peter Wu <peter at lekensteyn.nl> wrote:
> > Libgcrypt is developed using a Subversion3 repository.
> 
> This should probably be changed to Git.

Yes.  Good catch.

> This part I do not really understand, why would a git tag where you
> manually run autogen.sh be different? Have there been issues in the
> past?

I think that it means the dependency to autotools.  Not all user have
same version of autoconf/automake on their systems.  It is common
problem (not only in the past, but still is), different version of
autoconf/automake causes an issue.
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