Hi Michael,
I believe the freeze has been lifted following the release of Debian
Stretch a few weeks ago.
Could you take another look at the proposed patch?
Best regards,
François
On 05/14/2017 11:02 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
Thanks for investigating this issue and providing the updated patch.
As Debian is currently in a freeze, I can’t upload the patch right
now. Could you ping this email thread/bug report once Debian left the
freeze please? Thank you.
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:49 PM, François Poirotte
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
It seems the patch "deterministic-latex.patch" is not working as
it should.
I guess it may have to do with the way it uses escape sequences
(in my case, "\\fixedpdfdate" is actually replaced by a form feed
character followed by "ixedpdfdate" in the final .tex file).
Attached is an updated version of the patch that fixes the issue
for me.
It uses "printf" instead of "echo" to avoid possible issues with
the interpretation of escape sequences.
It blanks the "ModDate" & "CreationDate" fields instead of trying
to be smart about them.
It also removes pdfLaTeX's banner & trailer ID from the final
output (which may also fix the issue you reported about different
versions of the build-dependencies resulting in different output
files).
Best regards,
François
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Best regards,
Michael
