Bug#1034422: distro-info(-data) should respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Holger Levsen]

package: distro-info
severity: wishlist
x-debbugs-cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
affects: extrepo-data, developers-reference

hi!

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 12:24:52PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-04-14, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > i'm wondering whether distro-info should respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH: 
> > src:developers-reference builds different content based on the build
> > date, due to using distro-info and distro-info knows that in 398 days
> >  trixie will be released :))) 
> > see  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/arm64/diffoscope-results/developers-reference.html
> >
> > (src:developers-reference is "my" package using sphinx.)
> 
> This also recently came up for extrepo-data:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020648#15
> Porbably should file a bug on distro-info and then mark as affecting
> extrepo-data and developers-reference, and any other relevent
> packages. Maybe also we should create an issue for it in
> reproducible-notes.git.

thanks!


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