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> This would make verification much more difficult: We’d need ELF-capable > tools that know about the special section, etc. That's an easy job, not a real difficulty. > I would argue that, if builds are reproducible, then the build time of a > particular build doesn’t matter. What could be useful information is > the commit or time of commit of the source being built. Maybe you're right about that -- if the sources match some version in the repository. But what about when they don't? For instance, if you've made local changes? I have found it useful in Emacs to see the date when I built Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
