[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] IDENTITY as header tag extension discussion (#426)

[Jeff Johnson]

All of the I18N string tags (SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION/CHANGELOG*) should not be included in IDENTITY because the value returned can depend on an envvar, and/or external files, and/or macros embedded in text.

Then there are issues with the stat(2) links, where st_mtime/st_rdev/st_inode tags should not be included, but (perhaps) the st_nlinks tag that is computed from the (dev,Inode) pair should be included in IDENTITY.

A preliminary list of tags to include (not tags to exclude) will hep focus on what IDENTITY reproducibility is most useful.

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