bug#33300: Automatically detecting binaries in source tarballs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:11:34AM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote:

[...]

>> One of my review-tasks is this:
>> 
>> [] Binaries included? If yes, created a snipped?
>>    find . -name "*.rar" -or -name "*.pdf" -or -name "*.bin" -or -name 
>> "*.pdf" -or -name "*.dsy" -or -name "*.jar" -or -name "*.exe" 
>
> also "*.so" or "*.a" I assume.
>
> For python we'd want to grep the source files for "Generated by Cython"

Indeed.  The “risk”, if we make the list too long, is that we’ll find that
we’re not doing so well in many cases.  We should make sure we can
address all these issues.

>> Should this be a phase of the build system? Or just a linter, that was
>> my first idea?
>
> I'd go with a phase

Same here.  It’d be inconvenient to implement in ‘guix lint’ because
we’d first need to extract the tarball etc.

Thanks,
Ludo’.