Bug#801621: perl: support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in Pod::Man

[Niko Tyni]

Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 07:53:17PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.22.0-4
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: timestamps
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>, reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

> It would be good to have Pod::Man support the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> environment variable, either instead of or in addition to POD_MAN_DATE,
> which is specific to the podlators modules. This would give distributions
> aiming for reproducible builds automatic benefits from standardizing on
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, without having to add a special case for Pod::Man.

Russ has just fixed this upstream in podlators-4.00. 

I'll backport it to our 5.22 packages (but probably not 5.20 at
this point.)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org