On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:39:27AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > The problem is described in > > <git://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git>: > > > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_podman: > > description: | > > The module Pod::Man includes timestamps in its embedded manpages: > > > > http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/latest/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm/?hl=1700#L977 > > They should be based on the mtime of the original file. > > url: > > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInManpagesGeneratedByPodMan > > According to the information on this page, we should set POD_MAN_DATE > while building. Should we make the perl-build-system export this > variable? Set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH?
I noticed that Pod::Man is supposed to respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, as of the upstream module version 4.03 (released 2015-12-06). Does anyone know how to check the version of the module bundled into perl? [0] https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Man#date [1] https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/news.html
