On 17.03.2017 18:19, Robin Becker wrote: > An issue has been raised for reportlab to support a specific environment > variable namely SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. The intent is that we should get our time > from this variable rather than time.localtime(time.time()) so that produced > documents are more invariant. > > First off is this a reasonable request? The variable is defined by debian here > https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ > > What happens if other distros decide not to use this environment variable? Do > I > really want distro specific code in the package? > > In addition we already have our own mechanism for making the produced > documents > invariant although it might require an extension to support externally > specified > date & time as in the debian variable. > > In short where does the distro responsibility and package maintainers boundary > need to be?
the reproducible-builds thing is not just a Debian thing, it's supported by other distros and upstream projects. Matthias _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
