Bug#775010: libmaven-archiver-java: please allow pom.properties' date to be deterministic

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for the patch. I think it could be simplified by
writing the properties in memory, replacing the line containing the date
if the BUILD_DATE variable is detected, and then saving the file. This
would avoid duplicating the code serializing the properties.

Is the BUILD_DATE variable settled for the whole Debian project yet?
Maybe a name that looks more Debian specific would be preferable.
Similarly to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS we could probably use DEB_BUILD_DATE.

Emmanuel Bourg