On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:43:57PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > And the perl-no-build-time patch deactivated the code that embedded the > compilation timestamp that is normally printed by `perl -V`. Perl 5.24.0 > can take this value from the macro PERL_BUILD_DATE [2], so I removed the > old patch and added perl-reproducible-build-date.patch. > > I don't love this patch... we could instead do something like what > happens in the Erlang package. There we instead get SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH > from the environment and do some format string transformations to make a > pretty date string.
We could also just keep the perl-no-build-time patch in place. There is not much point in doing work just to make `perl -V` print a nonsense date (Unix epoch) IMO.
