Kevin O'Connor wrote:
Depends on the packaging tool, not the distro,
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So there shouldn't be *that* many different cases.
Well, there's also Arch and likely others. If someone wants to send a patch then we can take a look. My initial thought is that it seems a bit complex.
Yes. This belongs in packaging, not upstream.
It's not awesome that release tarballs aren't reproducible by default..
I mean, you do know that everyone else deals with the problem by replying "please try with latest upstream" to the first bug report with any ambiguity, right?
//Peter