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

[Ximin Luo]

On 10/06/15 12:58, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On 10 June 2015 at 20:54, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at pwned.gg> wrote:
>> On 10/06/15 12:41, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>>> On 10 June 2015 at 01:59, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at pwned.gg> wrote:
>>>> SOURCE_DATE = "$(date -d "$(dpkg-parsechangelog --count 1 -SDate)" --iso-8601=seconds)" # includes the TZ offset
> 
>> The TZ offset is given statically in debian/changelog, and that can also be part of the "uninterpreted string". It's no less arbitrary than the rest of the date itself.
> 
> Your example above will emit the local timezone, and not the one from
> the changelog.
> 

You are right, my bad. I *meant* that it should be the same offset as in debian/changelog. But yes, annoyingly it is hard to get date(1) to do that, because of the same reasons I outlined earlier. But debhelper could do it correctly in one place, and then tools could use it.

I guess it's up to me to write a patch for that, and then see if people want it. I suppose we can leave this discussion for now.

X

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