Bug#834190: perl: please make the output of ExtUtils::Command::MM reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Dominic,

> Could you clarify how this showed up as an issue as part of the
> reproducible builds work?

Not sure how I can add beyond the original bug report alas :) However,
what I was seeing was that ExtUtils::Command::MM was generating
"perllocal.pod" files that contained the current time of day,
hence the patch.

> A reproducible build should just disable perllocal generation
>
>   — https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/pull/279

I'm afraid I just don't know -- am not deep enough into Perl packaging
to know the impact of this.

Let me comment on there actually...


Regards,

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