On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 23:14:35 GMT, Emmanuel Bourg <d...@openjdk.java.net> wrote:
> The copyright headers are generated at build time, and the year inserted in > the template depends on the current date. This means the headers are not > reproducible if the project is built a year later. The year in the headers > could be derived from the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable to make the > build reproducible (this variable is already used in other parts of the > build). Yes, that's what I'm thinking. `--with-copyright-year` should have priority over `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` -- the latter is kind of a fallback; if you actively set another value on the command line it should override environment variables. (As is generally the case.) ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1498
