On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 11:37:34AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 06:33:18PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > I've done this using a separate script under tp/maintain that is > > run by both autogen.sh and the Makefile. It adds flags for GNU tar > > only. > > It looks good to me. Maybe there could be a mention of that somewhere, > maybe in README or README-hacking, that a tarball is present in the > release for files used in tests with non-ascii names and that the > tarball will be generated from sources reproducibly only if the tar > command is a recent enough GNU tar.
Added to README-hacking.
