[DRE-maint] Bug#820144: rdtool: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Alexis Bienvenüe]

Source: rdtool
Version: 0.6.38-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
that several packages (like apt-listbugs) use rdtool in their building
process, resulting in timestamps (month and year of build) in man files
that break reproducibility.

To solve this kind of issues, it would be nice to have rdtool support
the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable [2].

See the attached patch for a proposed solution.

Regards,
Alexis Bienvenüe.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
[2] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

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