[Reproducible-builds] Bug#824050: emacs24: please make autoloads files reproducible

[Alexis Bienvenüe]

Source: emacs24
Version: 24.5+1-6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

autoloads files embed a timestamp. To get a reproducible build [1] for
software packages that build-depend on emacs (including emacs24), it
would be great to make this timestamp honoring the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable [2], that is set to the last debian/changelog entry
date when building binary debian packages.

Please find attached a proposed patch for this.

Regards,
Alexis Bienvenüe.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/
[2] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

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