Thanks for investigating this issue and providing the updated patch. As Debian is currently in a freeze, I can’t upload the patch right now. Could you ping this email thread/bug report once Debian left the freeze please? Thank you.
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:49 PM, François Poirotte <fpoiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems the patch "deterministic-latex.patch" is not working as it should. > I guess it may have to do with the way it uses escape sequences (in my > case, "\\fixedpdfdate" is actually replaced by a form feed character > followed by "ixedpdfdate" in the final .tex file). > > Attached is an updated version of the patch that fixes the issue for me. > It uses "printf" instead of "echo" to avoid possible issues with the > interpretation of escape sequences. > It blanks the "ModDate" & "CreationDate" fields instead of trying to be > smart about them. > It also removes pdfLaTeX's banner & trailer ID from the final output > (which may also fix the issue you reported about different versions of the > build-dependencies resulting in different output files). > > Best regards, > François > -- Best regards, Michael
