Re: Bootstrap a GNU source distribution from git

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Vivien Kraus writes:

Hi Vivien,

> I could not fully recover the release source (I am not attempting bit-
> reproducibility) because:
> — the translations were lost;
> — the ChangeLog was lost;
> — the manual revision date was lost;
> — guix’ patched shebangs leaked in the sources.
>
> This is a mixed responsibility problem.

If you would ask me, this is a bug in GNU hello.  Since this spring
the Guix source tarball reproduces bit-by-bit by running: `make dist',
see <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2024-04/msg01157.html>.

Greetings,
Janneke

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