On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Alexis Bienvenüe wrote: > Source: recode > Version: 3.6-22 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch upstream > User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: timestamps > X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Dear Maintainer, > > While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed > that 'recode' could not be built reproducibly. > > The attached patch makes recode building using a recent version of > help2man (from the debian package) instead of the old one shipped with > the recode sources. This version honours the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH > environment variable, so that the date used in the documentation is > taken from the last debian/changelog entry. [...]
Sorry for not answering before. The proposed patch is certainly perfect for what it intends to do. However, I don't really like what it does (setting the date to the last debian/changelog entry) because that would appear that I modified the manpage at every Debian release. So I'm going to hardcode the date to the upstrem release date (January 2001) with a much shorter patch. This may be a little bit hacky, but the end result is closer to what I think it should be. Thanks a lot.
