On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > When no explicit date is specified on the command line, txt2man currently > embeds > the current time into generated manpages. > For the Reproducible Builds effort we are proposing an environment variable > [1], > that will contain a deterministic epoch timestamp (based on the latest > debian/changelog > entry) that could be used. > We hope that it will soon be automatically exported by debhelper. > With the attached patch packages using txt2man would then automatically > generate > reproducible manpages (instead of having to adapt each package to explicitely > pass a > timestamp).
Since several months debhelper exports this variable, and it's gaining a
lot of adoptions.
Currently we are keeping this package patched in our custom repository,
but that's clearly sub-optimal.
I wonder, would you mind doing an upload with this patch applied? :)
Note that it has been also "applied" upstream (if you can say that for a
git repository not updated in years and then this...).
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