alírio eyng <[email protected]> skribis: >> Perhaps it would be best to honor the ‘SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH’ environment >> variable¹ instead of always using zero? > >> Fontforge users who expect a meaningful timestamp in there >> would still have it. And the patch could even be submitted upstream >> eventually. > actually there are four values, two are about the font source and two > are about the font executable > the font executable times are not readable in the gui and by the work > on debian, they are not readable in the api, so this change only > low-level things invisible to users
There may be other programs out there that do display the timestamp, though. > this don't change dates on font information (because these come from > font source) > so i don't see any reason to fiddle with environment variables and > conversions to integer in c Well, I think this is debatable, and most likely in this form the change is not acceptable for upstream. I committed it anyway because I think it does more good than harm in our case. Thank you! Ludo’.
