D035 - A derivation ships with the command that re-runs it
selfish derive <package>... re-checks every
derived row against packages the reader supplies, reports how many
samples each claim survived, and exits non-zero if any fails. The rows
in data/pkg-format.tsv say DERIVED and name
it.
The reason is the one this repository was founded on. A cited row can be checked by opening the source it names. A derived row cannot - it is only as good as the samples behind it and the method that produced it, and a derivation nobody can re-run is indistinguishable from somebody's memory. Three packages backed these two; a fourth could kill them, and the command is how anyone finds that out without taking a word for it.
It also refuses to be flattered. Finding::survived
requires every testable sample to agree rather than a majority,
because a format true of two packages in three is not a format.
The precedent is obSCEne's derive, which re-derives the
tag assignment from a module it just wrote rather than trusting the
constants that built it - and which caught this migration's output as
consistent when it could just as easily have caught it as wrong.