There are a lot of dupliacted files, testing files and unused libraries
present in the AppImage. Removing these reduces the AppImage size
significantly.
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There was a problem where Python would not properly include the faketime
timestamp sometimes. This patch replaces faketime with a patch that is
used by Ubuntu for reproducible builds by exporting BUILD_DATE and
BUILD_TIME with the desired values.
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We build our own mksquashfs from squashfskit which supports generating
reproducible squashfs images. We use a small wrapper script to remove
the -mkfs-fixed-time which appimagekit passes but squashfskits
mksquashfs does not support.
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see AppImage/AppImageKit#929
We already delete unused Qt modules, but we weren't deleting their PyQt5 modules.
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Importing from PyQt5.Qt is an unnecessary fallback that loads every PyQt5 module.
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pkg2appimage excludes libusb-1.0.so by default for no good reason:
83483c2971/excludelist (L112)
This can cause an issue when the AppImage loads the systems libusb but the
systems libusb in turn loads libudev from the AppImage. The kernel ABI for
libusb will not be changing so it is safe to bundle it into the AppImage.
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One user reported not getting keepkey with fw 6.1.0 detected
with python-keepkey 6.0.3, but detecting it with 6.1.0.
Sounds weird as all the changes look to be tests-related,
and could not reproduce. Still, this should not hurt.
so we don't need pyrcc5, which is not deterministic,
and so we don't need the submodule for the icons
based on electrumsv/electrumsv@bf8802c2eaf0bf75565b5423a95bcb85ec7eb781
Axel Gembe
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