Meson is a far more robust build framework, compared to autotools. This
greatly simplifies adding new features, since it's far easier to
maintain a set of meson.build files vs the autotools mishmash.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Autotools based build is deprecated and will be
removed in the future.
As part of improving the privacy around the software, even though time
zone is not considered PII, it's still coarse location data that we
don't need at all. By using UTC, we can eliminate even this last bit of
identifying information from the bug reports.
In order to comply with recent privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA, the
bug report utility has been updated to remove personally identifiable
information such as device serial number and system hostname from the
output.
In addition, this change also adds a PRIVACY.md file which describes how
this project handles data, in compliance with GDPR/CCPA. Documentation
is updated to link to the privacy document as well.
Prior to this change, the Git version was only getting generated when
the call was made to autoreconf. This was resulting in stale version
info.
This change, by contrast, generates the build info at the call to make.
While this doesn't completely eliminate the stale version issue, it's
easier to work around, by simply running `make clean`, `make`.
nirenjan