[Reproducible-builds] Bug#783475: texi2html: [PATCH] Allow make the build of documentation reproducible adding the use-date flag.

[Juan Picca]

Package: texi2html
Version: 1.82+dfsg1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi!

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that texi2html could not allow to built documentation reproducibly.

The attached patch adds the flag use-date that allows use the given  string
for the date, instead the generated timestamps.
Once applied, we can build reproducibly the packages that use
texi2html for generate documentation in our current experimental
framework.

 [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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