Hi Reiner, On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed that mc could not be built reproducibly. It embeds the current date into the mcedit manpage during build.
That's my fault: the dates were originally entered by hand, which, of course, soon enough resulted in that they were no longer current, so I campaigned for them to be set automatically during the build.
The attached patch uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as a deterministic timestamp instead.
I wouldn't mind upstreaming this patch as long as SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is at least halfway standardized. Could you please tell me whether this is Debian-specific, or other distros are also adopting this convention?
Many thanks! -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev
