Package: texlive-xetex
Version: 2026.20260711-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
it appears that xelatex composes PDF files with a Creator field
containing the date at composing time (without taking into account
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH). We can reproduce the issue as follows:
$ SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 xelatex sample2e
$ TZ=UTC pdfinfo sample2e.pdf | grep Creat
In an uptodate Debian/Sid schroot environment, the last command outputs:
Creator: XeTeX output 2026.09.05:1027
CreationDate: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 UTC
hth,
Jerome
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other files
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List of ls-R files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 19 17:54 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R ->
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 3 16:47 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 19 17:54 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ->
/var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 19 17:54 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ->
/var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2774 Sep 3 16:47
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Apr 1 2019 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 3 16:47 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.94+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages texlive-xetex depends on:
ii teckit 2.5.13+ds-2
ii tex-common 6.20
ii texlive-base 2026.20260711-2
ii texlive-binaries 2026.20260303.78225+ds-5
ii texlive-latex-base 2026.20260711-2
ii texlive-latex-extra 2026.20260711-2
ii tipa 2:1.3-21
Versions of packages texlive-xetex recommends:
pn lmodern <none>
texlive-xetex suggests no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-6+b2
ii ucf 3.0056
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 14.3
Versions of packages texlive-xetex is related to:
ii tex-common 6.20
ii texlive-binaries 2026.20260303.78225+ds-5
-- no debconf information
