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Hey Arnout,
Thanks for getting in touch and for your kind words on reproducible
builds. :)
> To me it doesn't sound unreasonable to consider the last segment of the
> build path part of the build environment
Could you elaborate why? We feel that the entire build path including
the basename(1) (or "last segment") to be:
a) something up to the local package builder to decide.
b) A poor method of storing metadata. It seems quite fragile and also
non-intuitive; if a user searches the source tree for the version
number, they won't actually find it within any of the files!
Our comprehensive testing framework deliberately varies this build path
to flush out these issues FYI.
Regards,
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