| From: |
| Ian Jackson <ijackson-AT-chiark.greenend.org.uk> |
| To: |
| Adrian Bunk <bunk-AT-stusta.de> |
| Subject: |
| Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps |
| Date: |
| Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:05:38 +0000 |
| Message-ID: |
| <22552.34066.97851.182813@chiark.greenend.org.uk> |
| Cc: |
| Simon McVittie <smcv-AT-debian.org>, debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org |
Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps"):
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:48:56PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >...
> > * Source for generated files in the tarball: should be in both git
> > and tarball, but sometimes mistakenly omitted from tarballs
> > (e.g. configure.ac, m4/foo.m4,
> > build-aux/git-version-gen). Leaving these out of the tarball is
> > also an upstream bug, IMO, because it means the "source" tarball
> > is not really its own source. I'd suggest sending patches
> > upstream to add these to EXTRA_DIST.
> >...
>
> The ChangeLog file in the "source" tarball of the hello package is
> generated from the git metadata.
How exciting. So the official tarball of GNU hello is not the
preferred form for modification!
> You are saying it is a bug that .git is not shipped in the source
> tarball of GNU hello?
Personally I think a Linux kernel tarball, without accompanying git
history, is a GPL violation. But I don't expect to convince anyone...
Ian.
