Hi Mattia, I am reviewing all my packages gradually. I will review txt2man soon (I will give priority to txt2man).
Regards, Eriberto 2016-05-09 19:25 GMT-03:00 Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org>: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote: >> When no explicit date is specified on the command line, txt2man currently >> embeds >> the current time into generated manpages. >> For the Reproducible Builds effort we are proposing an environment variable >> [1], >> that will contain a deterministic epoch timestamp (based on the latest >> debian/changelog >> entry) that could be used. >> We hope that it will soon be automatically exported by debhelper. >> With the attached patch packages using txt2man would then automatically >> generate >> reproducible manpages (instead of having to adapt each package to >> explicitely pass a >> timestamp). > > Since several months debhelper exports this variable, and it's gaining a > lot of adoptions. > Currently we are keeping this package patched in our custom repository, > but that's clearly sub-optimal. > > I wonder, would you mind doing an upload with this patch applied? :) > > Note that it has been also "applied" upstream (if you can say that for a > git repository not updated in years and then this...). > > -- > regards, > Mattia Rizzolo > > GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. > more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : > Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` > Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
