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"make dist" is not reproducible

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 72232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, P <at> draigBrady.com, bruno <at> clisp.org
Subject: bug#72232: "make dist" is not reproducible
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:58:30 -0700

On 2024-07-21 10:44, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We can just rely on the timestamp of the .tarball-version
> to support reproducible _tarballs_.

Although this makes the distributed file contents reproducible, the 
tarballs themselves are still not reproducible, since they contain 
random timestamps and (I imagine) other metadata. I vaguely recall Bruno 
having a general solution for that sort of problem but don't recall 
where it got put. (I do something more complicated in TZDB.)

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