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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]
> Last I tried, apart from the time issue, I believe I also got an issue
> with the way some images were generated into the resulting PDF.  The
> generated image code would simply change from one run to another.  IIRC,
> I worked around time issue using 'faketime':
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsProposal .  We
> could use that in our doc/Makefile if the other issues are resolved.

Right.  I tested using faketime, and can confirm that the PDF changes
every time.  The creationDate according to pdfinfo is also different,
apparently it take between 3 and 4 seconds to generate the PDF on my
machine.  But the PDF checksum changes also when the CreationDate second
is same, so there is something else changing too.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen