Re: [Reproducible-builds] faketime by default?

2014-09-23 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hans-Christoph Steiner: > Thanks for the explanation, that's a bummer that it was so problematic, but I > suppose not surprising. Would it make sense to have something like a "dh > --use-faketime" flag so that maintainers could opt-in to use it where it might > be helpful like when upstream refuse

Re: [Reproducible-builds] faketime by default?

2014-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Hans-Christoph Steiner: >> I've been using faketime in my work on reproducible builds on Android (both >> "native" C code and Java), and it has been working well. It seems to me that >> the current approach in Debian does not use faketime. >> >> Since so much of the little

Re: [Reproducible-builds] faketime by default?

2014-09-22 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hans-Christoph Steiner: > I've been using faketime in my work on reproducible builds on Android (both > "native" C code and Java), and it has been working well. It seems to me that > the current approach in Debian does not use faketime. > > Since so much of the little issues are due to timestamps