[bug#70169] [PATCH 0/7] Reproducible `make dist' tarball in defiance of Autotools and Gettext

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> I boldly pushed `origin/wip-tarball', you may try that :)

Silly me. 🤦

First try: I wasn’t running in a UTF-8 locale (in ‘guix shell -CP’) so I
got things like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
│ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/AUTHORS
│ │ @@ -9,35 +9,35 @@
│ │  
│ │   10255     Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
│ │    7293     Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
│ │    5991     Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
│ │    4033     Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
│ │    3124     Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
│ │    2356     Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
│ │ -  2306     Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
│ │ +  2306     Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then there’s prolly a timezone issue with the generated ChangeLog:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
│ │ -2024-02-19  Troy Figiel  <troy@troyfigiel.com>
│ │ +2024-02-20  Troy Figiel  <troy@troyfigiel.com>
│ │  
│ │     gnu: Add go-github-com-coocood-freecache.
│ │     * gnu/packages/golang-xyz.scm (go-github-com-coocood-freecache): New variable.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The best thing to do is probably to drop ‘ChangeLog’ generation (maybe
‘AUTHORS’ too) and just add a text inviting users to check the Git log.

Then I must have stale ‘help2man’ byproducts:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
│ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/doc/guix-challenge.1
│ │ @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
│ │  .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.49.2.
│ │  .TH GUIX "1" "April 2024" "GNU" "User Commands"
│ │  .SH NAME
│ │ -guix \- manual page for guix challenge (GNU Guix) 1.3.0.51884-370f8f3
│ │ +guix \- manual page for guix challenge (GNU Guix) 1.3.0.57425-80a228
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Lots of differences in Info files:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
│ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/doc/guix-cookbook.fr.info
│ │┄ xxd not available in path. Falling back to Python hexlify.
│ │ @@ -1,6 +1,8216 @@
│ │  5468697320697320677569782d636f6f6b626f6f6b2e66722e696e666f2c2070
│ │  726f6475636564206279206d616b65696e666f2076657273696f6e20362e3820
│ │ -66726f6d0a677569782d636f6f6b626f6f6b2e66722e746578692e0a0a0a1f0a
│ │ -546167205461626c653a0a1f0a456e6420546167205461626c650a0a1f0a4c6f
│ │ -63616c205661726961626c65733a0a636f64696e673a207574662d380a456e64
│ │ -3a0a
│ │ +66726f6d0a677569782d636f6f6b626f6f6b2e66722e746578692e0a0a436f70
│ │ +79726967687420c2a920323031392c2032303232205269636172646f20577572
│ │ +6d75730a436f7079726967687420c2a920323031392045667261696d20466c61
│ │ +73686e65720a436f7079726967687420c2a9203230313920506965727265204e
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Something with PO files not being regenerated (?):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
│ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/po/packages/en@boldquot.po
│ │ @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
│ │  # English translations for guix package.
│ │ -# Copyright (C) 2020 the authors of Guix (msgids)
│ │ +# Copyright (C) 2024 the authors of Guix (msgids)
│ │  # This file is distributed under the same license as the guix package.
│ │ -# Automatically generated, 2020.
│ │ +# Automatically generated, 2024.
│ │  #
│ │  # All this catalog "translates" are quotation characters.
│ │  # The msgids must be ASCII and therefore cannot contain real quotation
│ │  # characters, only substitutes like grave accent (0x60), apostrophe (0x27)
│ │  # and double quote (0x22). These substitutes look strange; see
│ │  # http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
│ │  #
│ │ @@ -26,118 +26,85 @@
│ │  # transliterated to 0x22.
│ │  #
│ │  # This catalog furthermore displays the text between the quotation marks in
│ │  # bold face, assuming the VT100/XTerm escape sequences.
│ │  #
│ │  msgid ""
│ │  msgstr ""
│ │ -"Project-Id-Version: guix 1.2.0\n"
│ │ +"Project-Id-Version: guix 1.3.0.57419-5a2b40\n"
│ │  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bug-guix@gnu.org\n"
│ │ -"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-11-22 20:33+0100\n"
│ │ -"PO-Revision-Date: 2020-11-22 20:33+0100\n"
│ │ +"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-04-03 09:04+0200\n"
│ │ +"PO-Revision-Date: 2024-04-03 09:04+0200\n"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and possibly a timezone issue for POT files:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
│ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/po/packages/guix-packages.pot
│ │ @@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
│ │  # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
│ │  #
│ │  #, fuzzy
│ │  msgid ""
│ │  msgstr ""
│ │  "Project-Id-Version: guix 1.3.0.57425-80a228\n"
│ │  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bug-guix@gnu.org\n"
│ │ -"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-04-03 21:14+0000\n"
│ │ +"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-04-03 20:56+0200\n"
│ │  "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Note that in ‘guix shell -CP’ I had no TZ and LC_* variable set and
/etc/timezone is missing.

That’s it for today!

Ludo’.