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commit eb3505772428ea2d77430e03da2ebeb0dfdbd9bd
Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 11 20:31:08 2024 +0800

    packages: Reword release tarball vs repo snapshot difference
    
    Besides Rainer's suggestion, also use a vague "not stored in the
    repository" instead of the over-precise "generated": there are also
    vendored external source copies (as Git submodules or manually embedded
    during Release Engineering, for example the gnulib copies in many
    GNU packages); and maybe other cases.
    
    Suggested-by: Rainer Fiebig <[email protected]>
---
 chapter03/introduction.xml | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chapter03/introduction.xml b/chapter03/introduction.xml
index 05488ecbc..645686311 100644
--- a/chapter03/introduction.xml
+++ b/chapter03/introduction.xml
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
 
   <para>For some packages, the release tarball and the (Git or SVN)
   repository snapshot tarball for that release may be published with
-  similar file names.  A release tarball contains generated files (for
-  example, a <command>configure</command> script generated by
+  similar or even identical file names.  But the release tarball may contain
+  some files which are essential despite not stored in the repository
+  (for example, a <command>configure</command> script generated by
   <command>autoconf</command>), in addition to the contents of the
   corresponding repository snapshot.  The book uses release tarballs
   whenever possible. Using a repository snapshot instead of a release

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