Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

[Deri]

On Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:26:36 BST Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 07:13:54PM +0100, Deri wrote:
> > It looks Ok, not tested. I'm happy for you to apply.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Once gropdf moves to the font subsetting version it will cause a
> > problem for reproducible builds, since the gubbins inside the pdf
> > changes enormously, but it should look identical.
> 
> The object of reproducible builds isn't to ensure that output never
> changes - it's understood that different versions of tools frequently
> generate different output.  Rather, it's to ensure that if two different
> people run builds of the same inputs in sufficiently similar
> environments, they get the same outputs.  (Characterizing "sufficiently
> similar" of course takes considerable work, but it usually involves at
> least pinning the same versions of all the build-dependencies.)

Understood, thank you.

Deri