Bug#925191: toil: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: toil
Version: 3.18.0-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that toil could not be built reproducibly.

This is because it embeds the current builddate via Python's
`datetime.datetime.utcnow().year`.

Patch attached.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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