Re: [Bug-wget] Too verbose version information

[Tim Rühsen]

On 04/18/2017 04:40 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I find it a bit annoying that I end up with all of the following
> information after building wget:
> 
>> ./src/wget --version
> GNU Wget 1.19.1.25-92bf-dirty built on darwin10.8.0.
> 
> -cares +digest -gpgme -https +ipv6 -iri +large-file -metalink -nls
> -ntlm +opie -psl -ssl
> 
> Wgetrc:
>     /usr/local/etc/wgetrc (system)
> Compile:
>     /usr/bin/gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>     -DSYSTEM_WGETRC="/usr/local/etc/wgetrc"
>     -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" -I. -I../../wget-from-git/src
>     -I../lib -I../../wget-from-git/lib
>     -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include -DNDEBUG -arch ppc
>     -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
> Link:
>     /usr/bin/gcc -DNDEBUG -arch ppc -isysroot
>     /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -arch ppc
>     -L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib -isysroot
>     /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 ftp-opie.o
>     ../lib/libgnu.a -liconv
> 
> In particular: why should the user be aware of the exact path where I
> had wget stored on my hard drive (-I../../wget-from-git/src), of the
> fact that I didn't configure in-place and why should the user bother
> with so many environmental variables and the fact that the binary was
> cross-compiled?
> 
> Is there any way to remove all that information?
> 
> 
> 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):
> 
> GNU Wget 1.19.1.25-92bf-dirty built on darwin10.8.0.
> 
> -cares +digest -gpgme -https +ipv6 -iri +large-file -metalink -nls
> -ntlm +opie -psl -ssl
> 
> Wgetrc:
>     /usr/local/etc/wgetrc (system)
> 
> but I would like to have a way to avoid storing so many details in the
> second part.

This is basically not for the user but for us developers.
If someone opens a bug report, (s)he should give us this output, so we
can try to reproduce the problem with as less effort as possible.

We don't want you to remove this information :-). The users of your
package will address us (and not you) with problems.

But you are free to privately keep a set of patches to remove this
information (and maybe add your own, e.g. your email address for bug
reports).

Regards, Tim

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