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Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make grof
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?) |
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Sun, 9 Jul 2023 19:16:48 +0100 |
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 11:59:04AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-07-09T13:24:27+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 02:42:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > So, how about the attached patch?
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> > I somehow neglected to update doc/groff.texi. Here's an updated
> > version.
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> I have no objection to this patch. I think Colin is right that none
> but reproducible-build mavens are going to use $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
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> I am curious to see some concrete examples of the sorts of shenanigans
> TZ is used for in reproducible build testing, which foreclose the groff
> 1.23.0 approach as far as Debian (and presumably others) are concerned.
https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/-/blob/master/reprotest/build.py
is the only thing I have to hand; if you search for "TZ" in that you'll
find code that runs a pair of builds with TZ=GMT+12 and TZ=GMT-14 to try
to catch some extremes.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]