#961764: texi2html: texi2html embeds User and Date information in generated .html files

Vagrant Cascadian vagrant at reproducible-builds.org
Mon Nov 16 03:10:47 GMT 2020


On 2020-11-15, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2020-05-28, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> Files generated by texi2html often embed the build user and build date.
...
> I've tested the attached a simpler one-line patch that removes the
> default user value rather than the entire code handling user and date.
>
> I've read:
>
>   https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org
>
> But did not see anything about what the process for a QA upload was...
>
> As this fixes reproducibility issues in several packages, it would be
> nice to see this included in time for bullseye!
>
> Thanks for your review, and please let me know if I should proceed with
> the upload, or any changes to make, or process to follow, etc.

Well, pabs pointed me to the devref and encouraged me to upload.

I made some additional relatively trivial fixes to the packages and
uploaded via dgit.

Thanks!

live well,
  vagrant
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