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Re: [Bug-wget] Too verbose version information
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Dale R. Worley |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-wget] Too verbose version information |
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Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:44:17 -0400 |
Mojca Miklavec <address@hidden> writes:
> I find it a bit annoying that I end up with all of the following
> information after building wget:
[...]
> The first part is reasonable (even if I don't like the fact that the
> exact OS version is hardcoded; after security updates the binary will
> change only due to the increased minor version, so reproducibility is
> lost):
Mostly, --version is so that if someone wants to know if the
documentation they're reading matches the executable they're running,
they can tell. And as Tim said, --version gives the information that a
developer needs for a bug report.
But you say "reproducibility is lost"... It sounds like you have a need
that the current --version cannot be used to satisfy. What is that
need?
Dale