Hu-hu!
Ingo Schwarze wrote in
<[email protected]>:
|Follow-up Comment #4, bug #57218 (project groff):
|
|I think groff should not write %%CreationDate into PostScript files it
|creates. Not because of reproducible builds, which i consider a useless \
|and
|even detrimental feature, but because of privacy concerns. That would also
|solve this so-called "problem" as a side effect.
|
|Basically, it amounts to something like deleting these lines from
|src/devices/grops/ps.cpp:
|
| {
| fputs("%%CreationDate: ", out.get_file());
| #ifdef LONG_FOR_TIME_T
| long
| #else
| time_t
| #endif
| t = current_time();
| fputs(ctime(&t), out.get_file());
|}
I think better it would be to check for
getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH"), and use a fixed constant if that is
true. (For the MUA i maintain i use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=844221007
in mx-test.sh, i have forgotten why, hmm.)
It is a pity that reproducible-builds.org only goes for that
single constant, and does not offer finer control for tests etc.
Ciao and good night,
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
