Bug#947608: markdown: please make the output reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: markdown
Version: 1.0.2~b8-6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
markdown generates output that is not reproducible.

Specifically it encodes some email addresses using random HTML
entities in an attempt to thwart spammers. A patch is attached that
seeds the random number generation with a deterministic value based on
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [1].

  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
  [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/


Regards,

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