On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:07:45PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 24. 06. 21 v 15:48 Tomas Tomecek napsal(a):
> > > One thing to consider is that the upstream tarballs might be 
> > > cryptographically
> > > signed and packages should verify the signature in %prep.
> > This is a very good point - in such a case, we should always pull the
> > official upstream tarball instead of generating a new one downstream
> 
> Does it matter? If you are able to generate byte2byte identical
> tarball then you can choose any of them.

If the upstream tarball contains generated files, chances of re-creating
bytewise identical tarball is low, and for autotools based projects it
is essentially zero.

Regards,
Daniel
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