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Chris Bowditch commented on FOP-2854:
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I don't see how fixing the create date to the Unix Epoch will help you compare
linux distros either. As I mentioned above if you regenerate a PDF File,
internal IDs could change as well as the date. So an alternative means of
comparing PDFs within Linux distros is needed. Or perhaps a PDF should be
treated as static when rebuilding the Linux distro
> CreationDate in PDF metadata breaks reproducible builds
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> Key: FOP-2854
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2854
> Project: FOP
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: renderer/pdf
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Environment: Debian GNU/Linux
> Reporter: Filippo Rusconi
> Priority: Major
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> Greetings,
> I would like to report that the CreationDate value that is set in the PDF
> file changes at each run. This is problematic because that makes it
> impossible to run FOP in the context of reproducible builds (see
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds).
> Would it be possible to create an option to set that date value manually or
> some equivalent solution to this problem ?
> Thank you so much for your work on FOP !
> Regards,
> Filippo
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