Bug#894476: #894476: Solved from the Qt side. (rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)

Sune Vuorela sune at vuorela.dk
Thu Jul 12 18:28:21 BST 2018


On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:08:23 PM CEST Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

> Ideally QT_RCC_SOURCE_DATE_OVERRIDE would get set based on
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, otherwise build tools have an arbitrary growing

No. As explained, we need to look at each individual package to check if the 
timestamp is actually used for anything. It can be. It probably is. 

I think a better fix might be to specifically mark in the rcc file if the 
dates are important or not. But it requires involvement upstream. (Or maybe if 
the rcc file is autogenerated or not). I don't think it is a problem for non-
autogenerated rcc files.

/Sune
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