Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#774274: fontforge: please allow scripts to set the font modification time

2015-09-20 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Jérémy Bobbio: > For font compilation to be deterministic, we need a way to set the font > modification time to a defined value instead of the current time. > > We thus add a new function “SetModificationTime” to the scripting language. > It takes a single string argument looking like “2014-12-30

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#774274: fontforge: please allow scripts to set the font modification time

2014-12-30 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: fontforge Version: 20120731.b-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: toolchain timestamps Control: block -1 by 774148 Hi! While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that some font packages could not be