[Reproducible-builds] Bug#832099: lintian: please check for unnecessary SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignments

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Fri 2016-07-22 17:31:15 -0400, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I do think we should support reproducible builds for all packages, and
> that our default build should be reproducible.  I'm just not sure that we
> should rule out allowing packages to be configured to use default upstream
> behavior for timestamps and whatnot, if it's not the default.

fwiw, i would love debian to reach a state where a non-reproduciblity is
an RC bug.  I know this seems radical, but there are other things (like
embedded rpath) where we do regularly patch out upstream defaults
because debian makes more sense otherwise.

        --dkg