Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

[Richard Stallman]

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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.

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