[Reproducible-builds] Bug#832099: lintian: please check for unnecessary SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignments

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:55:46AM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Attached is the following:
> 
>   commit 3b10f7dbaecedb0a458c25cc0b8615b489d424af
>   Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
>   Date:   Fri Jul 22 10:54:02 2016 +0100
>   
>       c/rules: Check for unnecessary SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignments
>       
>       As of dpkg 1.18.8, this is no longer necessary as dpkg exports this
>       variable if it is not already set (#759999). This should encourage
>       removing some duplicated code from a lot of our rules files.

though, using dpkg-buildpackage is not mandatory, a package should be
able to build with just `debian/rules binary`.  In such case SDE
wouldn't be exported.

This looks fairly similar to e.g. DEB_HOST_ARCH & friends variables,
that even if they are exported by dpkg-buildpackage you should set them
in d/rules nonetheless.

At least, that's what my AM told me back then ^^

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