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

[Thomas Preud'homme]

On jeudi 12 juillet 2018 18:28:21 BST Sune Vuorela wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, it's only a problem for files autogenerated at build time. rcc on a 
file that's part of the source tarball is gonna give a reproducible result.

Best regards,

Thomas
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