Bug#922336: dpkg-dev: reproducibility issues with __DATE__

[Dmitry Bogatov]

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Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.19.4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

please consider adding flags to CPPFLAGS, redefining __DATE__ and
__TIME__ to some predictable values, like epoch or timestamp of last
debian/changelog entry.

Here is rationale. I maintain package, which use __DATE__ and __TIME__
macros close to version string, making patch refreshing quite painful.
So instead, I redefined __DATE__ and __TIME__. I believe it may be
useful to be default behavior.

Not sure, whethere it is better implemented in debhelper or
dpkg-buildflags, added both into CC.

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