Re: rebuilding non_ascii.tar

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 11:37:34AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 06:33:18PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I've done this using a separate script under tp/maintain that is
> > run by both autogen.sh and the Makefile.  It adds flags for GNU tar
> > only.
> 
> It looks good to me.  Maybe there could be a mention of that somewhere,
> maybe in README or README-hacking, that a tarball is present in the
> release for files used in tests with non-ascii names and that the
> tarball will be generated from sources reproducibly only if the tar
> command is a recent enough GNU tar.

Added to README-hacking.