[Reproducible-builds] Bug#787444: Bug#787444: Bug#787444: Bug#787444: help2man: support externally-supplied --date for reproducibility

Wed Jun 10 10:58:24 UTC 2015

On 10 June 2015 at 20:54, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at pwned.gg> wrote:
> On 10/06/15 12:41, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>> On 10 June 2015 at 01:59, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at pwned.gg> wrote:
>>> SOURCE_DATE = "$(date -d "$(dpkg-parsechangelog --count 1 -SDate)" --iso-8601=seconds)" # includes the TZ offset

> The TZ offset is given statically in debian/changelog, and that can also be part of the "uninterpreted string". It's no less arbitrary than the rest of the date itself.

Your example above will emit the local timezone, and not the one from
the changelog.

> OK, then let's go with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.

Sold.  Adding it now.

--bod