Package: statnews
Version: 2.5
Tags: patch
Severity: wishlist
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org

If we avoid embedding gmtime time in
/usr/share/doc/statnews/README.Debian, this would make this package
reproducible [0].

Patch attached.


 [0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Regards,

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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian.eperl b/debian/README.Debian.eperl
index 151b2a3..7176b75 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian.eperl
+++ b/debian/README.Debian.eperl
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ The Debian Package statnews
 This is the Debian GNU/Linux version of the StatNews program, a script useful
 to generate some statistics out of a newsgroup.
 
-Davide G. M. Salvetti <sa...@debian.org>, <:=$_=gmtime:>.
+Davide G. M. Salvetti <sa...@debian.org>.
 <:
 # local variables:
 # mode: text
 # fill-column: 78
 # end:
-# LocalWords:  statnews StatNews gmtime
+# LocalWords:  statnews StatNews
 :>//

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