On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 05:58:11PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > My take is that it is a bug to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to populate the > timestamp inside a man page. This is just one of many symptoms that > will arise from trying to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in an upstream context.
You are assuming SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set to the changelog date, but it does not have to be the case. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is just a way to communicate the date to the tool. pod2man or html2man not honoring it would be a bug. It is frequent for debian/rules to set it to the date in the upstream documentation so that the generated documents are identical to the one in the upstream tarballs. Having reproducible builds allow for meaningful date and timestamp, and is not a rationale to remove them. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
