[Reproducible-builds] LaTeX's \today

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi all,

> Looking at debian package canl-c, I saw it uses \today in the
> documentation LaTeX files, so that it can't build reproducibly.
> I also heard about gle-graphics [1], which has to be patched to give a
> fixed value to \today.

I just ran into the same issue with chktex yesterday.

> Can we consider turning LaTeX into using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (when
> available) as \today's epoch?

I would say +1, but there may be side effects I missed.

Cheers
Sascha


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