Thanks for the bug! And sorry for the to posting :-(

I'll try to take a look into this.

El sáb., 31 de mar. de 2018 07:09, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> escribió:

> Hi,
>
> > While investigating ultracopier's lack of build reproducibility, I found
> > out that rcc encodes the timestamp of the files the QRC file being
> > compiled references
>
> Indeed, we've been tracking this for a while in the Reproducible Builds
> project [0] but, without a patch, we did not wish to bother you with a
> bug. :)
>
> It is affecting at least 4 or 5 other packages. I had previously tracked
> it down to [1].
>
> Regarding the solution, I think I would actually prefer to see something
> consuming SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH[1] rather than adding an option to set a
> specific timestamp.
>
>   [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
>   [1]
> https://sources.debian.org/src/qtbase-opensource-src/5.9.2+dfsg-12/src/tools/rcc/rcc.cpp/#L207-L212
>   [2] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --
>       ,''`.
>      : :'  :     Chris Lamb
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>        `-
>
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