in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I'm trying to reproduce what you wrote in a clean debian bookworm docker container and ./maketgz 8.7.1 is failing due to a missing pib/libcurl.plist

I think that could be a way forward for curl: have a dockerimage to produce those files.

Then you can use that image, users can reproduce it, and we could even have a github action that runs this image on every tag push and automatically uploads release artifacts.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

These version numbers are not enough, when I tried earlier I noticed that the generated files seemed to contain patches added by Debian or Ubuntu, you should specify the exact versions including the distribution-specific revision (from dpkg -l).

The latest from Ubuntu 23.10 worked best for me, these were probably what you used, but having the exact version makes it easier to reproduce in the future.