On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 06:04:58PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > So: should po file generation allow the caller to control the timestamp > that would be embedded?
Maybe, or maybe not. But so far, the non-reproducible Debian packages using gettext I've seen fail to be reproducible because maintainers insist on regenerating a .pot file at build time and performing msgmerge on all the .po files with the newly generated .pot file "just in case", or doing similar things. IMHO, that's clearly a task that would be better done before build time (i.e. taken out from the build process), much like upstream authors call autoconf before creating the final tarball when making a release. Thanks.
