On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 01:19:44PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Would it make sense to force the C locale only if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is > set to not modify existing behaviour? Otherwise I'm all for an NMU.
Yes, that makes sense. I attached an updated patch, which behaves as before if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set. Regards, Reiner
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series index 6e5630a..795b9d1 100644 --- a/debian/patches/series +++ b/debian/patches/series @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ bug_212088.patch bug_214982.patch bug_394511.patch bug_528334.patch +support_source_date_epoch.patch diff --git a/debian/patches/support_source_date_epoch.patch b/debian/patches/support_source_date_epoch.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20d196d --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches/support_source_date_epoch.patch @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Author: Reiner Herrmann <rei...@reiner-h.de> +Description: Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for timestamps + To allow generating documents in a reproducible way, + allow overriding the timestamp through the environment. + . + See also: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ + +--- a/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl ++++ b/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl +@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ + use SGMLS; # Use the SGMLS package. + use SGMLS::Output; # Use stack-based output. + use SGMLS::Refs; ++use POSIX qw(strftime setlocale LC_TIME); + + ######################################################################## + # SGMLSPL script produced automatically by the script sgmlspl.pl +@@ -279,6 +280,10 @@ + _END_BANNER + + my $date = `date "+%d %B %Y"`; ++ if ($ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}) { ++ setlocale(LC_TIME, "C"); ++ $date = strftime("%d %B %Y", gmtime($ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH} || time)); ++ } + my $manpage_date = $manpage_date || $date ; + + output '.TH "';
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