On 2 June 2015 at 04:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > Please consider the attached patch as a step on the way toward allowing > packages that use help2man to build reproducibly. For more info, see:
Hi Daniel, I appreciate that you've provided a relatively generic solution to your problem: adding an option to set the date, but it occurs to me that most users don't actually care. Additionally, this will require changing the builds for anything which uses help2man to add a --date option. My inclination is instead to do something fairly specific to your project: If the environment variable DEB_BUILD_CHANGELOG (or something similar) is set, then the file to which it refers will be used to find the latest revision date, and that date will be used on the manual pages. Presumably the build system could set this prior to build/test? Regards, Brendan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
