[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#806494: Bug#806494: gnupg: please make the build reproducible

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Mon Nov 30 11:06:43 UTC 2015


Hi Werner,

> Can you please explain the envvar SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and from what value
> it is derived.

Would it be okay to direct you to its canonical specification rather
than repeat it here? ie.
<https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>

> The patch is anyway not portable; for example it uses strtoull and other
> C99 features.  yat2m needs to plain C90.

Ah, okay. Retro, but makes sense.

>   081c902 doc: Build man pages with the same date as the info files.
>   75eb071 yat2m: New option --date.

Great :)


Regards,

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