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-/* export-ignore
-/README-github_gitlab-autogenerated-archives.txt -export-ignore
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-github/gitlab autogenerated archives are not supported
-======================================================
-
-This information applies to bundles automatically generated
-by github and gitlab.
-
-strace's program version is maintained using git-version-gen script, therefore,
-building strace depends on "git describe" (a full git clone is needed for this)
-or, alternatively, a .tarball-version file.  Neither github nor gitlab can
-provide the latter, they also do not allow to inject a .tarball-version file
-during export archiving.