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.
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