bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 19:51:10 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> For CreationDate/ModDate, I think it should honor SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as >> in >>

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:18:15 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> OK, makes sense. Maybe we can still have it disabled (or enabled) by >> environment variable > > Sure. Any suggestions for the name of the environment

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 19:51:10 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > For CreationDate/ModDate, I think it should honor SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as > in >

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> . > > Hmm... can you access the patch linked there (under "Solution") ? It’s 404, but Leo sent a link to the patch on debian.org. Ludo’.

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:18:15 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > OK, makes sense. Maybe we can still have it disabled (or enabled) by > environment variable Sure. Any suggestions for the name of the environment variable? Also, where would we set it so the build processes of all the

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> . Hmm... can you access the patch linked there (under "Solution") ?

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Hi Ludo, > > On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:00:09 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> >> > Also, newer PDF files have an RDF header specifying some extra information >> > in an

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:00:09 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > > > Also, newer PDF files have an RDF header specifying some extra information > > in an XML-like format. For example there's an instance UUID (PDF/A > >

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Also, newer PDF files have an RDF header specifying some extra information > in an XML-like format. For example there's an instance UUID (PDF/A specifies > that it's recommended to set this to an empty string), and a document UUID. > The

bug#27563: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make ghostscript reproducible.

2017-07-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
So this is what's needed to finally make ghostscript, netpbm and groff reproducible. Groff just finished its 38th build on my machine and it finally compared the rounds as equal. I'm posting those here in order to make sure we all agree that this is the way to go. The patchset patches PDF