Bug#951357: mate-desktop: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: mate-desktop
Version: 1.24.0-1
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
mate-desktop could not be built reproducibly.

This is is because it generated a "release year" based on the current
build date which was embedded in the binary. A patch attached that
uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. [1]

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


Best wishes,

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