[Reproducible-builds] Bug#780259: Bug#780259: perl: please make the output of Pod::Man reproducible

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Dienstag, 31. März 2015, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > So where is the difference between
> > 
> > * setting all files in a binary package to the time stamp defined by
> >   the package's changelog entry, and
> > 
> > * running a build under a timezone defined by the package's changelog
> >   entry -- or under UTC?
> 
> builds are run in arbitrary timezones, that's the problem to tackle here.

Sure. So what speaks against running package builds with TZ=UTC being
set? (As the changelog entry only contains the offset, not the actual
timezone name or abbreviation.)

~ → ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 170 abe abe 12288 Mar 31 12:48 ./
~ → env TZ=UTC ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 170 abe abe 12288 Mar 31 10:48 .

		Regards, Axel
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