From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh () inai de>]

In the ibus repository at https://github.com/ibus/ibus ,
commit 0ad8e77bd36545974ad8acd0a5283cf72bc7c8ad
was tagged as refs/tags/1.5.29-rc2 (+signed) on 2023-11-09,
and a disted tarball was made available (but unsigned), and Linux distros have
imported it (file checksums all line up).

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/download/1.5.29/ibus-1.5.29-rc2.tar.gz

Comparing this disttar to the git repository and favorably
*discounting* autotools-related files and (what appears to be)
vala-to-c transpiling, I'm left with benign, but unexplicable
changes. It seems the git is "older", as e.g. one still finds "beta3"
in the diff, but also the disttar's ibuscodegen.h has an older
copyright line and an incomplete cherry-pick from
8f00d67b809036b0b76ae257cfe7e102bc8f1dec.

*runs away screaming*

In light of the xz revelations, I thought it's worth pointing out 
this class of problems.


$ tar -xf ibus-1.5.29-rc2.tar.gz
$ git clone -b 1.5.29-rc2 https://github.com/ibus/ibus ibus-git
$ diff -dprux .git ibus-git ibus-1.5.29-rc2
diff -dpru ibus-git/engine/simple.xml.in ibus-1.5.29-rc2/engine/simple.xml.in
--- ibus-git/engine/simple.xml.in       2024-04-01 14:08:16.541903956 +0200
+++ ibus-1.5.29-rc2/engine/simple.xml.in        2023-11-09 07:10:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,781 +3,596 @@
     <name>org.freedesktop.IBus.Simple</name>
     <description>A table based simple engine</description>
     <exec>@libexecdir@/ibus-engine-simple</exec>
-    <version>1.5.29-beta3.20230822</version>
+    <version>1.5.29-rc2.20231109</version>
     <author>Peng Huang &lt;shawn.p.huang () gmail com&gt;</author>
     <license>GPL</license>
...
--- ibus-git/po/de.po   2024-04-01 14:08:16.555237247 +0200
+++ ibus-1.5.29-rc2/po/de.po    2023-11-09 07:10:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: IBus\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues\n";
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2023-08-02 00:14+0900\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2023-11-09 15:10+0900\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: 2023-08-04 17:21+0000\n"
 "Last-Translator: Mike FABIAN <mfabian () redhat com>\n"
 "Language-Team: German <https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/ibus/";
diff -dpru ibus-git/src/ibusunicodegen.h ibus-1.5.29-rc2/src/ibusunicodegen.h
--- ibus-git/src/ibusunicodegen.h       2024-04-01 14:08:16.568570535 +0200
+++ ibus-1.5.29-rc2/src/ibusunicodegen.h        2023-11-09 07:09:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /* -*- mode: C; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- */
 /* vim:set et sts=4: */
 /* ibus - The Input Bus
- * Copyright (C) 2018-2023 Takao Fujiwara <takao.fujiwara1 () gmail com>
- * Copyright (C) 2018-2023 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2018-2021 Takao Fujiwara <takao.fujiwara1 () gmail com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2018-2021 Red Hat, Inc.
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -1310,6 +1310,10 @@ const static char *unicode_blocks[] = {
     /* TRANSLATORS: You might refer the translations from gucharmap with
                     the following command:
        msgmerge -C gucharmap.po ibus.po ibus.pot */
+    N_("CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I"),
+    /* TRANSLATORS: You might refer the translations from gucharmap with
+                    the following command:
+       msgmerge -C gucharmap.po ibus.po ibus.pot */
     N_("CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement"),
     /* TRANSLATORS: You might refer the translations from gucharmap with
                     the following command: