Bug#876410: libgl2ps1: please include support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Mike,

thanks for the bugreport. I do not think, that adding the
fixed timestamp to all files produced by the gl2os that is
what the users want.

Regards

Anton


2017-09-21 22:28 GMT+02:00 Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org>:
> Package: libgl2ps1
> Version: 1.3.9-4
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> All files produced by gl2ps include the current time in the local time
> zone. It would be helpful if this could be overridden so that files
> produced using gl2ps could be deterministic.
>
> Please consider adding support for the standard SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> environment variable. If present, it should override the use of the
> current time, and should also influence times to be written in a format
> that does not depend on the local time zone or locale.
>
> Thanks for your work on gl2ps.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages libgl2ps1 depends on:
> ii  libc6            2.24-17
> ii  libgl1           0.2.999+git20170802-4
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx  17.2.1-1
>
> libgl2ps1 recommends no packages.
>
> libgl2ps1 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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