[Development] Decrease amounth of delivered src packages

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2017 16:14:30 PST Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> > If distros care about size they can re-compress.
> > Well, and to my experience they do.
> 
> I cannot speak for other distributions, but it is Fedora policy to never
> modify an upstream tarball unless it is required to remove files that cannot
> be legally redistributed for some reason (e.g. patents). This includes
> recompression. The reason for that policy is that recompressing makes it
> harder to compare file checksums.

You can compare the checksum of the uncompressed tarball. Two people running 
git archive on the same commit or tag will produce the same uncompressed 
stream (including GitHub), but not necessarily the same compressed stream.

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