Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> said:
Here, OTOH, I'd just say that the tarball generated from a git
clone
should be bit-identical to the tar.gz pulled in by the spec.
That might change with zlib-ng... expecting compressed data to match is
probably not a reasonable expectation, as there are several that can
generate slightly different output at the same level but with other
different options (such as multiple threads).
I think it's probably more reasonable to say the compressed file should
pass a test by the compressor (e.g. gzip -t) and the uncompressed data
should match.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>