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> What would be helpful is if `make dist' would guarantee to produce the same > tarball (bit-to-bit) each time it is run, assuming the tooling is the same > version. Currently I believe that is not the case (at least due to timestamps) Isn't this a description of "reproducible compilation"? We want to make that standard, but progress is inevitably slow because many packages need to be changed. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)