Bug#834190: perl: please make the output of ExtUtils::Command::MM reproducible

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:39:13PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], I noticed
> that ExtUtils::Command::MM generates perllocal.pod files that are
> not reproducible.
> 
> For example:
> 
>   -=head2 Sun Jul  3 14:56:53 2016: C<Mod  [..]
>   +=head2 Sun Aug  6 23:18:50 2017: C<Mod  [..]
> 
> Patch attached.
> 
>  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/

Hi Chris,

Could you clarify how this showed up as an issue as part of the
reproducible builds work? There seems to be some resistance to the
change in https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/pull/279
that I don't quite understand, and it'd be nice to demonstrate more
clearly that it's relevant outside Debian...

Cheers,
Dominic.