On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 08:39:58PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2025 at 20:57:15 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > By changing SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in what is purported to be a 'binary-only > > upload' > > we are breaking the reproducible build semantic. > > How so? We're changing the build environment (that's the point of doing a > binNMU) and the version number (because otherwise our systems wouldn't > upgrade to the rebuilt package) so of course we expect the result to be > different.
Precisely, SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was introduced to make builds more reproducible. and not to solve the binNMU problem which predates reproducible builds by a long time. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
