[Request for help] Making brian reproducible

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 04:09:26PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Hi Vagrant,
> 
> On 6/8/21 3:40 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > On 2021-06-08, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> >> I was trying to make "brian" package reproducible. To my understanding it has two problems:
> >>
> >> * use datetime.date.today() and similar stuff for build documentation - I suppose I fixed these with using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> > 
> > Your fixes look reasonable; just be sure the way you're passing the time
> > is independent of timezone (it might be fine as is).
> 
> Sure

Incidentally, instead of using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, please also double
check if you couldn't just get rid of the timestamp at all.
In my experience most timestamps are just useless and don't really
provide anything valuable, so it's better to just get rid of them
altogether.

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