On 09/08/2015 22:44, Bruce Korb wrote:
> On 08/09/15 05:27, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>> Bruce Korb:
>>> Obviously, I can make no changes to Debian rules,
>>> but I have now added a working --enable-timeout=$WHATEVER configure
>>> option:
>>>
>>>      http://autogen.sourceforge.net/data/autogen-5.18.6pre11.tar.xz
>>
>> Thanks Bruce. I believe this is going to be of interest to all binary
> 
> No problem.  Maybe I should also scale up the factor of 10?
> Its purpose really is only for error detection.
> 
> I also decided to fiddle it so that you can specify the
> man page date stamp, too.  The "-d @" thingy is really unworkable,
> but if you export SOURCE_DATE, whatever it contains will be the date
> stamp.  "pre12".  Since this is still "pre"liminary, I'm open
> to other variable names.  "SOURCE_DATE" seems too likely to conflict.
> Maybe, "MAN_PAGE_SOURCE_DATE"?

What about SOURCE_DATE_ISO8601, to use the same pattern as
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH?

Unfortunately, there is already a variable named like this [1], which
actually stores date+time instead of just time.
Or maybe we can use SOURCE_DATE_ISO8601 and truncate it?

 [1]:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsProposal#Misc_info_and_alternate_proposals


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