[Reproducible-builds] Bug#782879: Bug#782878: [debhelper-devel] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Niko Tyni wrote:
> Pod::Man currently supports the POD_MAN_DATE environment variable,
> which can be set to an empty string to disable the timestamp
> altogether. Globally disabling the date header in Pod::Man would
> also affect locally built modules and documentation, which may not be
> desirable.  Having debhelper set POD_MAN_DATE would affect only Debian
> packages, which would be a less controversial change.

Sounds sane to me.

I'd volunteer to implement that in debhelper if there's no opposition.

		Regards, Axel
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