Bug#762674: python-apt: please don't embed the date and time of the build in apt_pkg

2014-09-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Source: python-apt Version: 0.9.3.10 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps Hi! As part of the “reproducible builds” projects [1], we have discovered that the apt_pkg module provided by python-apt embeds the date and time of the

Bug#762674: python-apt: please don't embed the date and time of the build in apt_pkg

2014-09-24 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Jérémy Bobbio lu...@debian.org wrote: If the API change is not acceptable, another solution would be to generate their value from the latest entry of debian/changelog. Another alternative to prevent the API change would be to use a dummy string. But I think