Merge bitcoin#22418: release: Remove gitian

ab9c342 release: remove gitian (fanquake)

Pull request description:

  Note that this doesn't yet touch any glibc back compat related code.

ACKs for top commit:
  laanwj:
    Code review ACK ab9c342

Tree-SHA512: 8e2fe3ec1097f54bb11ab9136b43818d90eab5dbb0a663ad6a552966ada4bdb49cc12ff4e66f0ec0ec5400bda5c81f3a3ce70a9ebb6fe1e0db612da9f00a51a7

Author: MarcoFalke

REVIEWERS

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 /doc/dependencies.md                        @fanquake
 /doc/developer-notes.md                     @laanwj
 /doc/files.md                               @hebasto
-/doc/gitian-building.md                     @laanwj
 /doc/reduce-memory.md                       @fanquake
 /doc/reduce-traffic.md                      @jonasschnelli
 /doc/release-process.md                     @laanwj
@@ -77,8 +76,7 @@
 /contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py    @fanquake
 /contrib/devtools/symbol-check.py           @fanquake
 
-# Gitian/Guix
-/contrib/gitian-build.py                    @hebasto
+# Guix
 /contrib/guix/                              @dongcarl
 
 # Compatibility

ci/test/00_setup_env_mac.sh

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 export CONTAINER_NAME=ci_macos_cross
-export DOCKER_NAME_TAG=ubuntu:20.04  # Check that Focal can cross-compile to macos (Focal is used in the gitian build as well)
+export DOCKER_NAME_TAG=ubuntu:20.04  # Check that Focal can cross-compile to macos
 export HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin18
 export PACKAGES="cmake imagemagick librsvg2-bin libz-dev libtiff-tools libtinfo5 python3-setuptools xorriso"
 export XCODE_VERSION=12.1

ci/test/00_setup_env_win64.sh

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 export CONTAINER_NAME=ci_win64
-export DOCKER_NAME_TAG=ubuntu:20.04  # Check that Focal can cross-compile to win64 (Focal is used in the gitian build as well)
+export DOCKER_NAME_TAG=ubuntu:20.04  # Check that Focal can cross-compile to win64
 export HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 export DPKG_ADD_ARCH="i386"
 export PACKAGES="python3 nsis g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 wine-binfmt wine64 wine32 file"

contrib/README.md

@@ -26,18 +26,12 @@ The [Debian](/contrib/debian) subfolder contains the copyright file.
 
 All other packaging related files can be found in the [bitcoin-core/packaging](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/packaging) repository.
 
-### [Gitian-descriptors](/contrib/gitian-descriptors) ###
-Files used during the gitian build process. For more information about gitian, see the [the Bitcoin Core documentation repository](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/docs).
-
 ### [Builder keys](/contrib/builder-keys)
 PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core [release](/doc/release-process.md) results.
 
 ### [MacDeploy](/contrib/macdeploy) ###
 Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
 
-### [Gitian-build](/contrib/gitian-build.py) ###
-Script for running full Gitian builds.
-
 Test and Verify Tools
 ---------------------
 

contrib/devtools/README.md

@@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ Perform basic security checks on a series of executables.
 symbol-check.py
 ===============
 
-A script to check that the executables produced by gitian only contain
+A script to check that release executables only contain
 certain symbols and are only linked against allowed libraries.
 
 For Linux this means checking for allowed gcc, glibc and libstdc++ version symbols.
 This makes sure they are still compatible with the minimum supported distribution versions.
 
 For macOS and Windows we check that the executables are only linked against libraries we allow.
 
-Example usage after a gitian build:
+Example usage:
 
-    find ../gitian-builder/build -type f -executable | xargs python3 contrib/devtools/symbol-check.py
+    find ../path/to/executables -type f -executable | xargs python3 contrib/devtools/symbol-check.py
 
 If no errors occur the return value will be 0 and the output will be empty.