Bug#825706: imagemagick: please use deterministic timestamps in pdf metadata

2016-06-01 Thread imagemagick@discard.email
IMO this patch is a bad idea. TheĀ  SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH spec relates to package build processes, convert is an image conversion tool, not a build system. A more sensible idea would be to add a command line option to imagemagick to prevent it from embedding timestamps, and to use this option during t

Bug#825706: imagemagick: please use deterministic timestamps in pdf metadata

2016-05-28 Thread Reiner Herrmann
Source: imagemagick Version: 8:6.8.9.9-7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: toolchain timestamps X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi! While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed that imagem