[Reproducible-builds] Bug#787444: help2man: support externally-supplied --date for reproducibility

[Niels Thykier]

On 2015-06-04 17:24, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2015, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-2
>> 0150330/001317.html
>>
>> for details. TL;DR is to have SOURCEDATE as an environment variable in
>> ISO8601 format.
>>
>> It would be awesome for help2man to support this. At some point, debhelper
>> can even set this environment variable automatically.
> 
> sounds good to me!
> 
> Niels, what do you think?
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 	Holger
> 
> 

Hi,

I see no partial issue in setting this in either dh xor dh_auto_build,
provided it is one ENV for all tools (and not one for each tool).

Is the variable still actual? I vaguely remember seeing a mention of a
"SOURCEDATE_UTC" or something similar not too long ago in #d-reproducible.

Thanks,
~Niels