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bug#48661: reproducibility: build date in modus-themes.info
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#48661: reproducibility: build date in modus-themes.info |
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Wed, 26 May 2021 12:40:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Mai 26 2021, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> Question from the peanut gallery: are timestamp information really
> verboten in reproducible builds? I was led to believe that the
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH mechanism was introduced to allow programs to keep
> embedding this information, while giving packagers the means to assert
> reproducibility.
That requires support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in each place a timestamp is
generated. For example, gcc does that for __DATE__ and __TIME__. If
org wants to keep the timestamp it should add support for
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
Andreas.
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