(I ask that everyone spend some undisturbed and unpressured time to read and
digest what I'm about to write. Hopefully this way we can avoid unnecessary
redundant replies that don't contribute new information and only risk adding
fuel to any potential flamewars.)
Alexis Bienvenüe:
> Therefore,
Hi.
The support of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH added in pdftex/dvipdfm-x is great, and
does a very good job at building reproducible binary software packages.
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH allows to fix the metadata timestamps in the compiled
document, and when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES is set to 1, the tex
prim
