Re: git: 132f818ddbf4 - main - contrib/lutok: update from 0.4 to 0.6.2

> On Sep 4, 2026, at 3:32 AM, Benjamin Jacobs <freebsd@dev.thsi.be> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was meant to send this to you. I assume that including those
> build files was unintentional, wasn't it?

Hi,
	Thank you for following up — I meant to send out a reply to your earlier email.

	tl;dr: including these files was actually semi-intentional, but their inclusion is temporary. If you feel like it’s a real problem which deserves fixing, please file an issue with bugs.freebsd.org <http://bugs.freebsd.org/>, or freebsd/atf, freebsd/kyua, and freebsd/lutok (on GitHub).

	(If you’re satisfied with the above answer feel free to stop here)

	As someone pointed out in https://github.com/freebsd/lutok/issues/37, the release tarballs were incorrectly generated for version 0.6, resulting in broken downstream installs where autotools were not expected to be preinstalled (and weren’t required in past releases). “make dist” doesn’t include the .gitignore files in EXTRA_DIST, so these autotools generated files get checked in to git repos (more easily), for better or worse.
	This should be a relatively short-lived change though: the proposed goal originally was to move to cmake with the project, but after doing some research (thanks to prodding by bapt@ and siva@), I think moving to meson is the more sensible route for the projects. I’ll do a bit more research before committing to meson, but it seems like the better of the two popular build system alternatives to autotools (cmake being the other), which doesn’t rely on heavier weight tools like buck or bazel (which rely on Java/Nailgun).
Thank you,
-Enji