Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging
On 8/25/21 4:35 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I wrote this many times, but I don't see why we should use any "upstream
>> tarball" when the Git repository itself contains the tarball with:
>
>> git archive --prefix=$(DEBPKGNAME)-$(VERSION)/ $(GIT_TAG) \
>> | xz >../$(DEBPKGNAME)_$(VERSION).orig.tar.xz
>
>> (which leads to a .xz, which is nicer)
>
> "git archive" is reproducible, for simplicity I wouldn't use a prefix
> though. xz has some issues with reproducibility, AFAIK "-T2" makes it
> disable some internal heuristics that are based on the machine it is
> running on, and generates consistent output.
>
> Simon
>
Excuse me, but -T in xz looks like to be the number of threads. Did you
mistake it with something else?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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