[Freedombox-pkg-team] Bug#800816: plinth: please make the build reproducible

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Control: blocks -1 by 828220

[Sunil Mohan]
> Plinth 0.6-1 got uploaded.  The original problem got resolved due to
> removal of code that generates TODO.  However, we now have issue with
> PDF generated by dblatex.  An ID and two dates are some binary changes
> are present.

I had a look at the issue, and plinth calls xmlto which in turn call dblatex
to generate the PDF from the Docbook XML version.

The effect is that the possible workarounds listed in 
<URL: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInPDFGeneratedByLaTeX >
can not be implemented in plinth, but would have to be implemented in dblatex.

I've filed <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/828220 > asking for dblatex to be
able to produce reproducable PDFs.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen