Re: [Bug-wget] Too verbose version information

[Dale R. Worley]

Mojca Miklavec <address@hidden> writes:
> I find it a bit annoying that I end up with all of the following
> information after building wget:
[...]
> 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):

Mostly, --version is so that if someone wants to know if the
documentation they're reading matches the executable they're running,
they can tell.  And as Tim said, --version gives the information that a
developer needs for a bug report.

But you say "reproducibility is lost"...  It sounds like you have a need
that the current --version cannot be used to satisfy.  What is that
need?

Dale