Re: Making javadoc reproducible

[Björn Höfling]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:35:51 +0200
Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
> 12., P, 19:00):
> >
> > Hello guix,
> >
> > I've tracked down the javadoc timestamp problem.
> > There is a command line flag for javadoc (notimestamp), that
> > disables generating the comment in the docs that contains the
> > timestamp. Currently I see two ways forward:
> > 1. Track down the calls to javadoc, and add the flag to all calls.
> > 2. Write a simple patch to make javadoc behave as if notimestamp was
> > specified, whenever
> > SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is defined.
> > I do not think, that the patch produced by 2 is upstreamable, but it
> > seems much less work. WDYT?  
> 
> Also we can simply turn off the timestamp generation
> unconditionally...

Number 2 sounds good, and why not giving it a try to place it upstream?

Björn

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