On 2025-05-07, Ian Jackson wrote: > Options that I can see: > > A. Shared files in ma-same packages are not allowed to embed S_D_E. > For example, no dates in libopts25-dev's manpages. Other > situations (eg, other docs) will be handled similarly. > > A.0. Implement the above by patching out the date requests in the > manpages in the individual package. (Dates in manpages aren't > really very useful anyway.) Add a lintian lint which spots a > ma-same package with dates in manpages. > > A.1. Implement the above by having strip-nondeterminism strip all > build dates out of all manpages. (Does making this change involve > an archive-wide rebuild to ensure we can do future binNMUs?)
I am all for removing timestamps where they provide little to no value! Do tools handling man pages work without a date? I seem to recall trying this in the past and the man command spit out all sorts of errors... live well, vagrant
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