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Summary: Support reproducible builds by seeding hdtbl's RNG
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Mon 20 Nov 2017 02:34:29 AM UTC
Category: Macro - others
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Wishlist
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: gbranden
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
When A/Bing roff documents after a build to see what I broke with my changes,
I always have to ignore the numerous color changes caused by
contrib/hdtbl/examples/common.roff seeding its random number generator with
the current date/time and process ID.
Fortunately, the same file offers a seeding function.
Change the examples to seed the RNG, and explain why in a comment.
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