Re: reproducible tar archives

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Possibly automake can move
> from v7 to ustar.  Adding this to gnulib now allows us to gain
> experience with it.

I have already experience with it: Since 2018, all tarballs of GNU gettext
were made with --format=ustar. I have tested them on all possible platforms,
from HP-UX 11 to IRIX 6.5, from AIX 7 to NetBSD, and not encountered a
problem — nor received a complaint or bug report because of it.

So, from my point of view, we can ask the Automake team to adopt
--format=ustar now.

Bruno