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Subject: Re: Cross-distro reproducible build patches
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Hi!

Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> skribis:

> On 05/01/17 19:00, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> A new initiative to share repro-build patches has started as a followup
>> to the Reproducible Build Summit:
>>
>>    http://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-Januar=
y/000222.html
>>    https://github.com/distropatches/reproducible-builds
> Cool.
>
> [...]
>> =E2=80=A6 but I think a number things are written as snippets rather tha=
n actual
>> patches.
> Indeed, for instance, I just came some of these for cd-hit while
> updating it. Do you think it makes sense to convert these to patches
> where possible so that they can be shared?

I think it=E2=80=99s important to share, but I also think that snippets are=
 more
convenient and more expressive in some cases.  So I=E2=80=99d rather not co=
nvert
those snippets to patches.

That said, commented snippets may still be useful to non-Schemey
distros.

Ludo=E2=80=99.