On 2026-03-18, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
> moltemplate could not be built reproducibly.
>
> This is because the LaTeX-based documentation includes the current
> build date. This can be specified to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH through the
> LaTeX-specific FORCE_SOURCE_DATE environment variable.

I can confirm this issue is still present and the patch still applies.

I would like to perform a Non-Maintainer Upload (NMU) to apply this
patch and fix the issue sometime in the coming weeks.

Please let me know fi there are outstanding concerns.

live well,
  vagrant

> --- a/debian/rules    2026-03-18 07:05:59.841561850 -0700
> --- b/debian/rules    2026-03-18 07:12:29.965598585 -0700
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
>  #export DH_VERBOSE = 1
>  
>  export PYBUILD_NAME=moltemplate
> +export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1
>  
>  %:
>       dh $@ --buildsystem=pybuild

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