Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#782878: [debhelper-devel] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

2015-05-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: My feeling is that the date in the man page serves a useful purpose for the end user by communicating some idea of the staleness of the documentation and the recentness of the last release of the software. While this isn't a huge deal, it does feel somewhat less than

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#782878: [debhelper-devel] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

2015-05-25 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:07:37PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Disabling the date in the generated man page is definitely the easiest fix. I personally like the idea of instead setting the date to the last modified time of the Debian package. Actually, ideally, I wish that dpkg itself

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#782878: [debhelper-devel] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

2015-05-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:34:20PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-19 14:35, gregor herrmann wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:03:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Jelmer Vernooij wrote: +# Set man page timestamp to last package change time. +BUILD_DATE =