[Reproducible-builds] Bug#792687: gettext: please support timestamps from environment

[Chris Lamb]

> As a proof of concept, I've fixed "pppconfig" the way I think this
> kind of bugs should be fixed: By not running "po/update.sh" each and
> every time.

https://gist.github.com/be5b243cfcaaa27819f0 is the diff for anyone
interested

> Would be possible to drop the forked gettext and try to fix this in
> the affected packages?

Seems reasonable, especially as it's only ~40 packages. Would you guess
most of them are fixable under debian/ or require upstream patches?


Regards,

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