On March 18, 2019 10:56:34 AM GMT+01:00, Maxim Baz via arch-projects <arch-projects@archlinux.org> wrote: >I did see an earlier patch proposing the same, which was rejected >because it might break delta packages [1]. >However, someone mentioned that pacman is dropping support for delta >packages altogether [2] referring to a removal commit in pacman repo >[3], so I wanted to bring this up again :) > >I'm creating a new thread because according to my tests the earlier >patch [1] is incomplete. > > >1: >https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2017-May/004574.html >2: https://github.com/AladW/aurutils/issues/547 >3: >https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=9adb0d5b37df7ca668e23877e85431dabeea005e > >--
Messing with this in devtools used for building official repo packages kills reproducible builds when not agreed on very specific flags and tools to compress. This is not a good idea to do and we won't kill reproducibility by going wild west.
